Motivational Quotes

Humor

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

- Katz, Ellie

Best Quotes about Humor

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

A. Whitney Brown

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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

Socrates

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

Seabury, David

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

Horace Walpole

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

Fredrich

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

Knox, Ronald

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Martin, Steve

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Edward De Bono

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

Bill Nye

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

James Thurber

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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 the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Johnson, Samuel