Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Kathryn L. Nelson

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Warhol, Andy

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

A. Whitney Brown

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Borge, Victor

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Socrates

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

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

10.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

David Nicholls

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

Albee, Edward

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

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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

22.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Fredrich

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

31.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Martin, Steve

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

Hughes, Langston

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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

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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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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.