Motivational Quotes

Humor

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

- Seldes, Gilbert

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Seabury, David

2.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

3.

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

Martin, Steve

4.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

5.

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

Diller, Phyllis

6.

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

Fredrich

7.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

8.

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

9.

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

Nelson, Lord

10.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

11.

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

A. Whitney Brown

12.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

13.

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

Gary, Roman

14.

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

15.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

16.

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

Charlie Chaplin

17.

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

19.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

20.

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

Hughes, Langston

21.

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

22.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

23.

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

Socrates

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

26.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

27.

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

Horace Walpole

28.

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

Mary Hirsch

29.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

30.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

31.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

32.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

33.

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

Jeph Jacques

34.

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

James Thurber

35.

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

Williamson, Nicol

36.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

37.

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

Clark, Dick

38.

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

Martin, Steve

39.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

40.

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

41.

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

Johnson, Samuel

42.

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

43.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

44.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Conrad, Joseph

49.

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

50.

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