Motivational Quotes

Humor

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

- Sterne, Laurence

Best Quotes about Humor

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

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

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

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

James Thurber

11.

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

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

Eco, Umberto

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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Even the gods love jokes.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Fredrich

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

35.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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

Bill Nye

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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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

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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.

Eva Hoffman

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

Edward De Bono

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm

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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