Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Bill Nye

Best Quotes about Humor

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

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

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sondheim, Stephen

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

Dick Clark

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

Edward De Bono

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

Kathryn L. Nelson

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.

Nelson, Lord

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

Seabury, David

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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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Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

Robert Benchley

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

Herold, Don

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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The secret to humor is surprise.

Aristotle

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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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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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Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.

Seldes, Gilbert

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Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

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

Strachey, Lionel

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

Williamson, Nicol

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

Fredrich

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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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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

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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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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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The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh

Reiner, Carl

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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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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.

Procter, J. J.

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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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As a person is so must you humor them.

Terence

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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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Fortune and humor govern the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Diller, Phyllis

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