Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Humor

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Conrad, Joseph

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

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

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

Lewis Mumford

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

Albee, Edward

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

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

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

Bruce, Lenny

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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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 also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

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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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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

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Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

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

Seabury, David

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

Edward De Bono

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

A. Whitney Brown

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

Socrates

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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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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

Charlie Chaplin

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

Strachey, Lionel

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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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WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

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

Herold, Don

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

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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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Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov