Motivational Quotes

Humor

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

- Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

2.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

3.

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.

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

Eva Hoffman

5.

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

6.

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

Herold, Don

7.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

8.

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

9.

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

Edward De Bono

10.

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

11.

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

Rourke, Constance

12.

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

Conrad, Joseph

13.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

14.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

15.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

16.

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

Gary, Roman

17.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

18.

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

Trilling, Lionel

19.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Salma Hayek

24.

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

Fredrich

25.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

26.

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

27.

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

29.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

30.

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.

31.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Hemingway, Ernest

32.

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

Horace

33.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

34.

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

Clark, Dick

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

37.

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

38.

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

Warhol, Andy

39.

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

Albee, Edward

40.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

Socrates

41.

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

Seabury, David

42.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

43.

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

44.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

Thurber, James

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Proverb, Chinese

47.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

48.

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

49.

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

Procter, J. J.

50.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl