Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Martin, Steve

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

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

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

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

Nelson, Lord

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

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

James Thurber

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

Herold, Don

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Bruce, Lenny

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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

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Edward De Bono

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

Procter, J. J.

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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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Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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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

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

Lewis Mumford

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.