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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
- Knox, Ronald
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

2.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

3.
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

4.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

5.
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

6.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joubert, Joseph

7.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

8.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

9.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

10.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

11.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

12.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

13.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

14.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

15.
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

16.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

17.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

19.
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

20.
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

21.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

22.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

23.
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

24.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

25.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

27.
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

28.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown

29.
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

30.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

31.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

32.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

33.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

34.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

35.
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

36.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

37.
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

38.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

39.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

40.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

41.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

42.
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

43.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

44.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

45.
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

46.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

47.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

48.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan

49.
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

50.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.


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