Motivational Quotes

Humor

Even the gods love jokes.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Humor

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Bruce, Lenny

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mary Hirsch

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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All my humor is based upon destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing on the breadline right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

Bruce, Lenny

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Horace

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Edward De Bono

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

Martin, Steve

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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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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Martin, Steve

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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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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What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

Jeph Jacques

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Socrates

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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