Motivational Quotes

Humor

Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Humor

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

James Thurber

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Joubert, Joseph

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Twain, Mark

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Hughes, Langston

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

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Fredrich

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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?

Dick Clark

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

Wilson, Flip

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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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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 right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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Fortune and humor govern the world.