Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Salma Hayek

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Edward De Bono

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

Fredrich

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

Knox, Ronald

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Martin, Steve

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mel Brooks

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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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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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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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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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Seabury, David

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Conrad, Joseph

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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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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

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

Gary, Roman

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo