Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Humor

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 by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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

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

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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

Conrad, Joseph

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Dick Clark

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Albee, Edward

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

Horace

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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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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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 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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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Fredrich

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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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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.