Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Hughes, Langston

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

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

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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Procter, J. J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Horace

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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

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

Knox, Ronald

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If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.

Williamson, Nicol

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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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Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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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 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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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

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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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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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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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Herold, Don

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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