Motivational Quotes

Humor

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

- A. Whitney Brown

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Herold, Don

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Martin, Steve

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

The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

Eco, Umberto

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

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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

Martin, Steve

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Wilson, Flip

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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

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

Charlie Chaplin

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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

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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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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.

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Rourke, Constance

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I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

Warhol, Andy

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

James Thurber

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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

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Dick Clark

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Bill Nye

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.