Motivational Quotes

Humor

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

- Mel Brooks

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Fredrich

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Martin, Steve

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

Herold, Don

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Clark, Dick

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

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Nelson, Lord

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Socrates

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Gary, Roman

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Lewis Mumford

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An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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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

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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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

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