Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Eva Hoffman

2.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

3.

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

Diller, Phyllis

4.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

5.

There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.

Joubert, Joseph

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Hughes, Langston

9.

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

Salma Hayek

10.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

11.

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

12.

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

Edward De Bono

13.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

14.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Procter, J. J.

21.

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.

22.

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

Conrad, Joseph

23.

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

Albee, Edward

24.

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

Rourke, Constance

25.

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

Williamson, Nicol

26.

Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again.

27.

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

Mary Hirsch

28.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

James Thurber

32.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

33.

One never needs their humor as much as when they argue with a fool.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

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

Charlie Chaplin

35.

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

A. Whitney Brown

36.

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

Fredrich

37.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

38.

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

Seabury, David

39.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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

41.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

42.

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

Martin, Steve

43.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

44.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

45.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

46.

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

Nelson, Lord

47.

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

Gary, Roman

49.

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

50.

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