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

1.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

2.

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

Warhol, Andy

3.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

4.

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

Fredrich

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

6.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

7.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

8.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

9.

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

10.

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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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

12.

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

Clark, Dick

14.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

15.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

16.

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

Charlie Chaplin

17.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

18.

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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

20.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

22.

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

Socrates

23.

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

24.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

25.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

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

James Thurber

27.

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

28.

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

A. Whitney Brown

29.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

30.

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

32.

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

Lewis Mumford

33.

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

Knox, Ronald

34.

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

Martin, Steve

35.

There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

37.

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

Maclaine, Shirley

38.

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

39.

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

Horace Walpole

40.

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