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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
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
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

2.
Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

3.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

4.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

5.
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

6.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

7.
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

8.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

9.
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Beecher, Henry Ward

10.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

11.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

12.
The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.
Knox, Ronald

13.
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.

14.
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

15.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

16.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Hemingway, Ernest

17.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

18.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

19.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

20.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

21.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

22.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

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

25.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

26.
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

27.
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.
Trilling, Lionel

28.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Muir, Frank

29.
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

30.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

31.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan

32.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.
There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Procter, J. J.

34.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

35.
If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.
David Nicholls

36.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

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.
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

40.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

41.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

42.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

43.
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

44.
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
Herold, Don

45.
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

46.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

47.
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.
Williamson, Nicol

48.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

49.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

50.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown


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