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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
- James Thurber
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.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

3.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

4.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

5.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

6.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Maclaine, Shirley

7.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

8.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

9.
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

10.
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

11.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

12.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

13.
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

14.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

15.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

16.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

17.
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

18.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

19.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan

20.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

21.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

22.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

23.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

24.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

25.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

26.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

27.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

28.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

29.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

30.
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

31.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

32.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

33.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

35.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

36.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

37.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

38.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

39.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

40.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

41.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

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

43.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

44.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

45.
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

46.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

47.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

48.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

49.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

50.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks


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