Motivational Quotes

Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

- Katz, Ellie

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Procter, J. J.

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

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

Albee, Edward

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

A. Whitney Brown

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Martin, Steve

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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

Socrates

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mel Brooks

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Gary, Roman

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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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

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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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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

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Knox, Ronald

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

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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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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny