Motivational Quotes

Humor

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

- Charlie Chaplin

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Jeph Jacques

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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 just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Procter, J. J.

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Martin, Steve

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

Fredrich

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

Horace

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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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 something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Borge, Victor

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.