Motivational Quotes

Humor

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

- James Thurber

Best Quotes about Humor

1.

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

Bruce, Lenny

2.

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

Diller, Phyllis

3.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

4.

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

Dick Clark

5.

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

6.

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

7.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett

8.

Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

Rosten, Leo

9.

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Proverb, Latin

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

12.

Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.

Pico Iyer

13.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

14.

WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.

Katz, Ellie

15.

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

Eco, Umberto

16.

Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.

Zimmermann, Johann Georg

17.

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

Proverb, Chinese

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.

Burnett, Carol

21.

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

Conrad, Joseph

22.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Wilson, Flip

23.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

Nelson, Lord

27.

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

28.

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

Whipple, Edwin P.

29.

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Eva Hoffman

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

Mel Brooks

33.

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

Strachey, Lionel

34.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

Trilling, Lionel

35.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Sterne, Laurence

36.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Twain, Mark

37.

A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.

Horace

38.

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.

39.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

T. S. Eliot

40.

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

Bill Nye

41.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Peter Ustinov

42.

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