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

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

Wilson, Flip

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

Charlie Chaplin

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Martin, Steve

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Herold, Don

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Bill Nye

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Lewis Mumford

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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

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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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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 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

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

32.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Hughes, Langston

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Procter, J. J.

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

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

Socrates

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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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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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie