Motivational Quotes

Humor

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Gary, Roman

2.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

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

4.

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

Bill Nye

5.

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

Martin, Steve

6.

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

Hughes, Langston

7.

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

8.

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

Conrad, Joseph

9.

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

10.

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

A. Whitney Brown

11.

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

12.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

14.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

15.

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

16.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

17.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

18.

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

Mel Brooks

19.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

21.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

22.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

23.

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

24.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

25.

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

26.

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

27.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

28.

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

Trilling, Lionel

29.

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

30.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

31.

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

Clark, Dick

32.

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Eco, Umberto

35.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

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

Bruce, Lenny

37.

The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

38.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

39.

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.

40.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

42.

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

43.

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

Wilson, Flip

44.

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

Warhol, Andy

45.

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

Diller, Phyllis

46.

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

47.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

48.

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

Procter, J. J.

49.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

50.

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