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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
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
A rich man's joke is always funny.
Brown, Thomas Edward

2.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
Hughes, Langston

3.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

4.
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.
Sondheim, Stephen

5.
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

6.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

7.
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

8.
One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.
Proverb, Chinese

9.
A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
Fredrich

10.
Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.
Wilson, Flip

11.
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

12.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

13.
Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
Gary, Roman

14.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

15.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

16.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

17.
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

18.
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.
Maugham, W. Somerset

19.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

20.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

21.
There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
Eva Hoffman

22.
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

23.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

24.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

25.
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

26.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

27.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
Lewis Mumford

28.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

29.
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

30.
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Albee, Edward

31.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

32.
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

33.
Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
Burnett, Carol

34.
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

35.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

36.
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Aristotle

38.
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Bruce, Lenny

39.
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Swift, Jonathan

40.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

41.
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.

42.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Conrad, Joseph

43.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

44.
Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
Rosten, Leo

45.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

46.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

47.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

48.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

49.
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

50.
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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