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



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

2.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

3.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

4.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

5.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

6.
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

7.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

8.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

9.
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

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

11.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

12.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Trilling, Lionel

14.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

15.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

16.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

17.
Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.
King, Florence

18.
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

19.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

20.
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

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

22.
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

23.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

24.
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

25.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

26.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

27.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

28.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

29.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

30.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

31.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

32.
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

33.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

34.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

35.
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

36.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

37.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Rourke, Constance

38.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

39.
Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

40.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

41.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

42.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

43.
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

44.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

45.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

46.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

47.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

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

49.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

50.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward


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