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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
- Rosten, Leo
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

2.
I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?
Warhol, Andy

3.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

4.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

5.
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

6.
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

7.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

8.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
T. S. Eliot

9.
Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

10.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

11.
Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

12.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

13.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

14.
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

15.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

16.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

17.
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

18.
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

19.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

20.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

21.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

22.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Rourke, Constance

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

24.
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
Strachey, Lionel

25.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

26.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Sondheim, Stephen

27.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

28.
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

29.
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

30.
Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Martin, Steve

31.
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

32.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.
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

34.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley

35.
Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

36.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Joubert, Joseph

37.
Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
Pico Iyer

38.
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

39.
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

40.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

41.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

42.
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

43.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

44.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

45.
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

46.
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.

47.
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

48.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

49.
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

50.
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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