Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Humor

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

James Thurber

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

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

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

Mel Brooks

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

Nelson, Lord

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Fredrich

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Procter, J. J.

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

David Nicholls

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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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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

James Thurber

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

Eva Hoffman

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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

Martin, Steve

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

Socrates

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

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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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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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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 rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

33.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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