Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Hughes, Langston

2.

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

Rourke, Constance

3.

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

Johnson, Samuel

4.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

5.

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

Albee, Edward

6.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

7.

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.

8.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

9.

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

10.

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

15.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

16.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

17.

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

18.

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

Gary, Roman

19.

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

Strachey, Lionel

20.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

21.

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

Mary Hirsch

22.

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

Conrad, Joseph

23.

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

24.

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

Martin, Steve

25.

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

Jeph Jacques

26.

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

27.

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

James Thurber

28.

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

29.

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

Proverb, Chinese

30.

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

Williamson, Nicol

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

34.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

37.

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

Martin, Steve

38.

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

A. Whitney Brown

39.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

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

James Thurber

41.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

42.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

43.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

44.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

45.

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

46.

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

Lewis Mumford

47.

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

Wilson, Flip

48.

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

Horace

49.

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