Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

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

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

Edward De Bono

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Diller, Phyllis

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

Herold, Don

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Gary, Roman

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Martin, Steve

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 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 is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Fredrich

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The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

Kathryn L. Nelson

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Clark, Dick

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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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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy.

Knox, Ronald