Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Humor

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

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

James Thurber

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

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

Martin, Steve

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Socrates

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Knox, Ronald

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bill Nye

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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

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.