Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Edward De Bono

2.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

3.

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

4.

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

Johnson, Samuel

5.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

6.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

7.

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

Charlie Chaplin

8.

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

Hughes, Langston

9.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

10.

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

Martin, Steve

11.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

12.

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Diller, Phyllis

13.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

14.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

15.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

16.

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

Bill Nye

17.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

21.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

22.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

23.

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

Bruce, Lenny

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Albee, Edward

27.

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

Seabury, David

28.

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

Williamson, Nicol

29.

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

Conrad, Joseph

30.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

32.

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

James Thurber

33.

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

Rourke, Constance

34.

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

35.

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

Salma Hayek

36.

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

Mary Hirsch

37.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

38.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

39.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

40.

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

Clark, Dick

41.

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

Horace Walpole

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

45.

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

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

49.

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

Procter, J. J.

50.

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

Dick Clark