Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Lewis Mumford

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Eco, Umberto

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Knox, Ronald

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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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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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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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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Horace

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

Conrad, Joseph

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Martin, Steve

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

Edward De Bono

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Horace Walpole

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Jeph Jacques