Motivational Quotes

Humor

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Martin, Steve

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Seabury, David

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

Albee, Edward

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Bill Nye

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Lewis Mumford

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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 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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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

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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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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 absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Gary, Roman

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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

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Jeph Jacques

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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

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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.