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

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Nelson, Lord

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 -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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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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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

A. Whitney Brown

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Fredrich

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

Maclaine, Shirley

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.

Rourke, Constance

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

Eco, Umberto

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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

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

Edward De Bono

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Dick Clark

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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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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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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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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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By blood a king, in heart a clown.