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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Edward De Bono

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

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

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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 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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Horace

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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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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Herold, Don

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Horace Walpole

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Martin, Steve

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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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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Albee, Edward

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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.