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

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

Albee, Edward

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Seabury, David

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

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

Hughes, Langston

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

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

Williamson, Nicol

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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, 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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Horace Walpole

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Horace

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

Gary, Roman

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

Fredrich

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

Eco, Umberto

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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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 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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.