Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- James Thurber

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Warhol, Andy

2.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

3.

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

4.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

5.

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

6.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

7.

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

Martin, Steve

8.

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

9.

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

Mary Hirsch

10.

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

11.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

12.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

13.

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

Albee, Edward

14.

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

Conrad, Joseph

15.

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

Procter, J. J.

16.

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

Seabury, David

17.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

18.

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

A. Whitney Brown

19.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

20.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Lewis Mumford

22.

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

Clark, Dick

23.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

24.

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

Socrates

25.

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

26.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

27.

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

Edward De Bono

28.

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

Eco, Umberto

29.

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

Hughes, Langston

30.

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

Jeph Jacques

31.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

32.

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

Horace Walpole

33.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

34.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

35.

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

36.

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

Dick Clark

37.

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

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

40.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

41.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

44.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

45.

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

Fredrich

46.

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

47.

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

Twain, Mark

48.

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

Knox, Ronald

49.

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

50.

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