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

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Dick Clark

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

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

James Thurber

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

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Martin, Steve

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Jeph Jacques

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

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Albee, Edward

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There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Seabury, David

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Fredrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Edward De Bono

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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