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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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Best Quotes about Humor

1.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

2.
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

3.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

5.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

6.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

7.
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

8.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

9.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

10.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

11.
As a person is so must you humor them.
Terence

12.
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

13.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

14.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

15.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol

16.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

17.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

18.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

19.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

20.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

21.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

22.
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

23.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

24.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

25.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

26.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

27.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

28.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

29.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

30.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

31.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
Thurber, James

32.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

33.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

34.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

35.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

36.
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

37.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

38.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Trilling, Lionel

39.
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

40.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

41.
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
Kathryn L. Nelson

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

46.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Maclaine, Shirley

47.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

48.
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

49.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

50.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence


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