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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
- Procter, J. J.
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

2.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

3.
As a person is so must you humor them.
Terence

4.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

5.
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

6.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

7.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

11.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

12.
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

13.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

14.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

15.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Trilling, Lionel

16.
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.

17.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

18.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Rourke, Constance

19.
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

20.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

21.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

22.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

23.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

24.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

25.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

26.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

27.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

28.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

29.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

30.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

31.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

32.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

33.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

34.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

35.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

36.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

37.
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

38.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

39.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

40.
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

41.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

42.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

46.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

47.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

48.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

49.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Sondheim, Stephen

50.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan


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