Motivational Quotes

Humor

Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

- King, Florence

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Bill Nye

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

James Thurber

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

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Albee, Edward

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Horace Walpole

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

Eco, Umberto

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Mel Brooks

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.