Motivational Quotes

Humor

Fortune and humor govern the world.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Bruce, Lenny

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

Clark, Dick

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

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Proverb, Chinese

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Eco, Umberto

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Albee, Edward

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

Seabury, David

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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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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

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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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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Herold, Don

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Warhol, Andy

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.