Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

2.

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

Eva Hoffman

3.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

4.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

5.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

6.

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

7.

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

Bill Nye

8.

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

9.

Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.

Salma Hayek

10.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

11.

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

12.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

13.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

14.

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

Dick Clark

16.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

17.

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

18.

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

Procter, J. J.

19.

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

Fredrich

20.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

21.

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

Eco, Umberto

22.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

23.

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

Wilson, Flip

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

26.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

28.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

29.

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

30.

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

Diller, Phyllis

31.

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

Strachey, Lionel

32.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

33.

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

Martin, Steve

34.

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

Twain, Mark

35.

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

Proverb, Chinese

36.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

37.

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

38.

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

39.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

40.

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

41.

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

Knox, Ronald

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

44.

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

Charlie Chaplin

45.

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

46.

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

Colby, Frank Moore

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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

Jeph Jacques