Motivational Quotes

Humor

What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?

- Jeph Jacques

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Edward De Bono

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

Clark, Dick

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mary Hirsch

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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

Seabury, David

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By blood a king, in heart a clown.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

11.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

14.

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

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

Hughes, Langston

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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

King, Florence

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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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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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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

27.

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

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

Albee, Edward

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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