Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

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Best Quotes about Humor

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

Gary, Roman

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Nelson, Lord

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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

Fredrich

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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Salma Hayek

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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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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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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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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

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Socrates

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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Hughes, Langston

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

Martin, Steve

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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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 also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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