Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Knox, Ronald

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

James Thurber

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Charlie Chaplin

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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

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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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

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

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

Nelson, Lord

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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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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