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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.
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

2.
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

3.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

4.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol

5.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

6.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

7.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

8.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

9.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Rourke, Constance

10.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

11.
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

12.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

13.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

15.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

16.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

17.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

18.
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

19.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Irving, Washington

20.
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

21.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

22.
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

23.
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

24.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

25.
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.

26.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

27.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

28.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

29.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

30.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

31.
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

32.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

33.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

34.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

35.
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

36.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

38.
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

39.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

40.
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

41.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

42.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Maclaine, Shirley

43.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

44.
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

45.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

46.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

47.
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

48.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

49.
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

50.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg


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