Motivational Quotes

Humor

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Humor

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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Gary, Roman

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Warhol, Andy

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Seabury, David

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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

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

Jeph Jacques

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

Conrad, Joseph

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Edward De Bono

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Martin, Steve

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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

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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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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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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

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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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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

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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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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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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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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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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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

James Thurber

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Even the gods love jokes.