Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Bill Nye

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

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.

Smith, Alfred E.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Eco, Umberto

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Williamson, Nicol

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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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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Martin, Steve

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Edward De Bono

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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.