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

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

Martin, Steve

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Fredrich

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

Albee, Edward

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

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Socrates

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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 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

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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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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