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

1.

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

Strachey, Lionel

2.

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.

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Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists in the room will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.

Keillor, Garrison

4.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

5.

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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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

7.

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

8.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

9.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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

11.

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

Gary, Roman

12.

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

Mary Hirsch

13.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

14.

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

Charlie Chaplin

15.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

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

Albee, Edward

17.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

18.

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

Martin, Steve

19.

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

Seabury, David

20.

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

Herold, Don

21.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

24.

There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

25.

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

Fredrich

26.

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

Nelson, Lord

27.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

28.

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

29.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

James Thurber

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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

37.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

38.

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

James Thurber

39.

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

40.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

44.

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

45.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

46.

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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Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

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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.