Motivational Quotes

Humor

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

- Burnett, Carol

Best Quotes about Humor

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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

Jeph Jacques

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Fredrich

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

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Horace Walpole

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Herold, Don

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

Eva Hoffman

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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 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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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