Motivational Quotes

Humor

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

- Burnett, Carol

Best Quotes about Humor

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Clark, Dick

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

Gary, Roman

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

14.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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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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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

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

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Fredrich

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Socrates

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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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 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

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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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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

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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

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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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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, 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

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Chinese

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