Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Edward De Bono

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Mel Brooks

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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

James Thurber

Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

Bill Nye

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

James Thurber

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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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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.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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 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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Socrates

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

Albee, Edward

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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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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Procter, J. J.

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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

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

Fredrich

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Conrad, Joseph

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