Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Albee, Edward

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

Gary, Roman

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Herold, Don

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Mel Brooks

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

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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 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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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean 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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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