Motivational Quotes

Humor

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

- Tennyson, Lord Alfred

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Socrates

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Mel Brooks

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

Seabury, David

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

Gary, Roman

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

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Clark, Dick

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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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 joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

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

Williamson, Nicol

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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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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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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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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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

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

Martin, Steve

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Martin, Steve

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Diller, Phyllis

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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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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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.