Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Martin, Steve

Best Quotes about Humor

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

Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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

Albee, Edward

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

Mary Hirsch

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Edward De Bono

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

Jeph Jacques

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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

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Williamson, Nicol

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Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole.

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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Strachey, Lionel

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

Diller, Phyllis

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

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

Mel Brooks

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Maclaine, Shirley

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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, 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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A rich man's joke is always funny.

Brown, Thomas Edward

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

Clark, Dick

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.