Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

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Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Gary, Roman

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

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Martin, Steve

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Mel Brooks

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

Clark, Dick

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

Horace

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

Herold, Don

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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor.

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Wilson, Flip

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Albee, Edward

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