Mobsea Logo
Home

Motivational Quotes

Humor

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
- Eco, Umberto
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

2.
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

3.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joubert, Joseph

4.
As a person is so must you humor them.
Terence

5.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

6.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

7.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

8.
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

9.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

10.
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

11.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

12.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
Maugham, W. Somerset

13.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

14.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

15.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

16.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

17.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown

18.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

19.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Maclaine, Shirley

20.
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
King, Florence

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

24.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Sondheim, Stephen

25.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

26.
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

27.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

28.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

29.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

30.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

31.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

32.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

33.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

34.
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

35.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

37.
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

38.
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.

39.
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

40.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

41.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

42.
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
Kathryn L. Nelson

43.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

44.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

45.
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

46.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

47.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

49.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Trilling, Lionel

50.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye


Daily Inspirational Quotes on

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by Motivational Quotes.
Quotes on Ability
Achievement
Acting and actors
Action
Adversity
Quotes on Advertising
Advice
Age
Age and aging
Alcohol and alcoholism
Quotes on Ambition
America
Anger
Animals
Appearance
Quotes on Argument
Art
Atheism
Attitude
Beauty
Quotes on Belief
Body
Books
Books - reading
Bores and boredom
Quotes on Business
Change
Character
Charity
Children
Quotes on Choice
Christians and christianity
Churches
Civilization
Colleges and universities
Quotes on Commitment
Common sense
Communication
Communism and socialism
Competition
Quotes on Complaints and complaining
Computers
Concentration
Confidence
Conflict
Quotes on Contentment
Control
Conversation
Cooperation
Courage
Quotes on Creativity
Crime and criminals
Criticism
Culture
Death
Quotes on Education
Effort
Enemies
Enthusiasm
Equality
Quotes on Evil
Evolution
Example
Excellence
Expectation
Quotes on Experience
Facts
Failure
Faith
Fame
Quotes on Family
Fashion
Fate
Fear
Feminism
Quotes on Fiction
Focus
Food
Food and eating
Fools and foolishness
Quotes on Forgiveness
Freedom
Friends and friendship
Friendship
Genius
Quotes on Giving
Goals
God
Goodness
Gossip
Quotes on Government
Gratitude
Greatness
Grief
Growth
Quotes on Habit
Happiness
Hatred
Health
Heaven
Quotes on Heroes and heroism
History and historians
Hollywood
Home
Honesty
Quotes on Honor
Hope
Humankind
Humility
Humor
Quotes on Ideas
Ignorance
Imagination
Individuality
Integrity
Quotes on Intelligence and intellectuals
Jesus christ
Journalism and journalists
Joy
Judgment and judges
Quotes on Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Language
Laughter
Quotes on Law and lawyers
Laziness
Leadership
Learning
Liberty
Quotes on Lies and lying
Life
Listening
Literature
Loneliness
Quotes on Losers and losing
Love
Luck
Management
Manners
Quotes on Marriage
Media
Medicine
Memory
Men
Quotes on Mind
Mistakes
Money
Morality
Mothers
Quotes on Motivation
Music
Nations
Nature
Obstacles
Quotes on Opinions
Opportunity
Optimism
Pain
Parents and parenting
Quotes on Passion
Past
Patience
Patriotism
Peace
Quotes on People
Perfection
Perseverance
Persuasion
Philosophers and philosophy
Quotes on Photography
Planning
Pleasure
Poetry and poets
Politics
Quotes on Possibilities
Potential
Poverty and the poor
Power
Praise
Quotes on Prayer
Prejudice
Present
Pride
Problems
Quotes on Procrastination
Progress
Proverbs
Purpose
Quotations
Quotes on Reality
Reason
Relationship
Religion
Reputation
Quotes on Respectability
Responsibility
Riches
Risk
Science
Quotes on Secrets
Security
Self-esteem
Service
Silence
Quotes on Simplicity
Sin
Sleep
Society
Solitude
Quotes on Speakers and speaking
Speech
Spirituality
Success
Suffering
Quotes on Talent
Taxes and taxation
Teacher
The future
Theater
Quotes on Things and little things
Thoughts and thinking
Time
Travel
Trust
Quotes on Truth
Twentieth century
Understanding
Victory
Virtue
Quotes on Vision
War
Wealth
Winners and winning
Wisdom
Quotes on Wives
Women
Words
Work
World
Quotes on Worry
Writers and writing
Writing
Youth

Test your English Language
Benefits of Star Anise
Weird Hotels around the World
White Henna Designs
Vishwakarma Puja
Healthy Shoulder
Healthy foods that can make you Fat
Amazing beauty Secrets
Benefits of Quince
Benefits of Curry Leaves
Benefits of Peaches
Guglielmo Marconi
Top Players in MLB History
Places to Go in the Last 17 Weeks of 2015
Weird Stories
Benefits of Cabbage
Career Options After 10th
Career Options After Graduation
Carrer Success Tips