Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Herold, Don

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

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Seabury, David

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

Edward De Bono

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

18.

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

Fredrich

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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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 poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Johnson, Samuel

28.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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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

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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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

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Knox, Ronald

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

Gary, Roman

43.

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

James Thurber

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

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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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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De