Motivational Quotes

Humor

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Horace Walpole

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Hughes, Langston

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Muir, Frank

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Martin, Steve

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Rourke, Constance

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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

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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald

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

Lewis Mumford

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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.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Bruce, Lenny

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

Mel Brooks

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

James Thurber

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Martin, Steve

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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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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

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Seabury, David

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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