Motivational Quotes

Humor

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

- Wilson, Flip

Best Quotes about Humor

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Gary, Roman

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

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A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

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I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

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Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

Albee, Edward

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Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Truman, Harry S

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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

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Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Kleiser, Grenville

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers

Rosten, Leo

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Borge, Victor

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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.

Clark, Dick

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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

David Nicholls

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman