Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Rourke, Constance

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

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

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

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

Charlie Chaplin

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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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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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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Albee, Edward

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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 nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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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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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Seabury, David

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

Edward De Bono

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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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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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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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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Irving, Washington

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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