Motivational Quotes

Humor

Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Fredrich

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

Clark, Dick

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Albee, Edward

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

Hughes, Langston

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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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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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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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

Dick Clark

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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

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

Gary, Roman

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

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

Gandhi, Mahatma