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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
- Reiner, Carl
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

2.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

3.
The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.
Kathryn L. Nelson

4.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

5.
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

6.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

7.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

8.
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

9.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown

10.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

11.
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

12.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

13.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

14.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

15.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

16.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

17.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

18.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

19.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

20.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan

21.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

22.
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

23.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

24.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

25.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

26.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

27.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

28.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

29.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

30.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

31.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

32.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

33.
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Gandhi, Mahatma

34.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

35.
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

36.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

37.
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

38.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

39.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

40.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joubert, Joseph

41.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

42.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

43.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

44.
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

45.
Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
Seldes, Gilbert

46.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

47.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.


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