Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Seabury, David

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Clark, Dick

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

Mel Brooks

11.

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

Knox, Ronald

12.

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

Procter, J. J.

13.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

14.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

15.

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

Horace

16.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

17.

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

18.

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

Hughes, Langston

19.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

James Thurber

23.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

24.

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

25.

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

Warhol, Andy

26.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

27.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

31.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

32.

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

33.

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

Strachey, Lionel

34.

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

Herold, Don

35.

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.

Martin, Steve

36.

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

Eco, Umberto

37.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

38.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

39.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

40.

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

Trilling, Lionel

41.

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

42.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

43.

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

Conrad, Joseph

44.

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

Martin, Steve

45.

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

46.

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

Rourke, Constance

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

50.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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