Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Nelson, Lord

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Joubert, Joseph

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

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

Eva Hoffman

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Nelson, Lord

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

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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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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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Herold, Don

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Conrad, Joseph

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

James Thurber

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Albee, Edward

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.

Mary Hirsch

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

Clark, Dick

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diller, Phyllis