Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Albee, Edward

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Albee, Edward

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

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Warhol, Andy

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Seabury, David

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

Horace

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Martin, Steve

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

Proverb, Chinese

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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

Charlie Chaplin

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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Clark, Dick

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

Socrates

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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

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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Mel Brooks

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

Gary, Roman

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Procter, J. J.

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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

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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

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

Hughes, Langston

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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