Motivational Quotes

Humor

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

- Herold, Don

Best Quotes about Humor

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

James Thurber

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

Fredrich

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

10.

As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

11.

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

A. Whitney Brown

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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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Knox, Ronald

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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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A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Herold, Don

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The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Bruce, Lenny

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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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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Lewis Mumford

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

Mary Hirsch

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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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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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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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

34.

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

Martin, Steve

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

Socrates

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

41.

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

Diller, Phyllis

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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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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What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Swift, Jonathan

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Albee, Edward

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

Martin, Steve