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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.
- David Nicholls
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

2.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

3.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol

4.
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

5.
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

6.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

7.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

8.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

9.
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

10.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

11.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

12.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

13.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Muir, Frank

14.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

15.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

16.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

17.
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

18.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

19.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

20.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

21.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

22.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

23.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people --that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.
Thurber, James

24.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

25.
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

26.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

27.
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

28.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

29.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Sondheim, Stephen

30.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

31.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

32.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

33.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.
If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.
David Nicholls

35.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

36.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

37.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

38.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Truman, Harry S

39.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

40.
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

41.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

42.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

43.
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

44.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

45.
Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

46.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

47.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

48.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

49.
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

50.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan


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