Motivational Quotes

Humor

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

- Bruce, Lenny

Best Quotes about Humor

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

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

Edward De Bono

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Seabury, David

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Jeph Jacques

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Knox, Ronald

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Salma Hayek

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Lewis Mumford

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

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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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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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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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Martin, Steve

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

Horace Walpole

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Socrates

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Albee, Edward

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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 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

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

James Thurber