HUMOR

Famous Quotes

Quote: People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

Quote: Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer

Quote: A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. Author: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Polish-born British Novelist

Quote: Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. Author: Phyllis Diller 1861-1951, American Columnist

Quote: The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it. Author: Umberto Eco 1929-, Italian Novelist and critic

Quote: Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. Author: Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman

Quote: I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. Author: Edward Albee 1928-, American Playwright, Dramatist

Quote: The secret to humor is surprise. Author: Aristotle BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

Quote: Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. Author: W. H. Auden 1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

Quote: Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

Quote: A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

Quote: We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers. Author: Marguerite Gardiner Blessington 1789-1849, Irish Writer and Socialite

Quote: We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. Author: Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821, French General, Emperor

Quote: Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. Author: Edward De Bono 1933-, British Writer On Thinking Process

Quote: 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. Author: Victor Borge 1909-, Danish Entertainer, Pianist

Quote: Humor is just another defense against the universe. Author: Mel Brooks 1926-, American Actor, Director

Quote: A rich man's joke is always funny. Author: Thomas Edward Brown

Quote: 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. Author: Lenny Bruce 1925-1966, American Comedian

Quote: The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. Author: Lenny Bruce 1925-1966, American Comedian

Quote: Comedy is a tragedy plus time. Author: Carol Burnett American Television Comedian

Quote: 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. Author: Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

Quote: In the end, everything is a gag. Author: Charlie Chaplin 1889-1977, British Comic Actor, Filmmaker

Quote: Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law. Author: Dick Clark American Entertainer, Television Personality

Quote: A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist

Quote: 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. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

Quote: A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling. Author: Fredrich

Quote: If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

Quote: Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him. Author: Roman Gary

Quote: A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it. Author: Don Herold

Quote: A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness. Author: Horace BC 65-8, Italian Poet

Quote: Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Author: Langston Hughes 1902-1967, American Poet, Short-story Writer, Playwright

Quote: 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. Author: Washington Irving 1783-1859, American Author

Quote: I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author

Quote: There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. Author: Joseph Joubert 1754-1824, French Moralist

Quote: WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. Author: Ellie Katz

Quote: 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. Author: Garrison Keillor 1942-, American Humorous Writer, Radio Performer

Quote: 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. Author: Florence King 1936-, American Author, Critic

Quote: 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. Author: Grenville Kleiser 1868-1953, American Author

Quote: The hall-mark of American humor is its pose of illiteracy. Author: Ronald Knox 1888-1957, British Scholar, Priest

Quote: One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit. Author: Jean De La Bruyere 1645-1696, French Writer

Quote: Fortune and humor govern the world. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer

Quote: If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. Author: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

Quote: A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. Author: Shirley Maclaine 1934-, American Actress

Quote: Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. Author: Steve Martin 1945-, American Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Playwright, Writer

Quote: Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty. Author: Steve Martin 1945-, American Actor, Comedian, Screenwriter, Playwright, Writer

Quote: It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humor. Author: W. Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

Quote: Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. Author: Malcolm Muggeridge 1903-1990, British Broadcaster

Quote: Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. Author: Frank Muir 1920-, British Humorist, Writer

Quote: I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor. Author: Lord Nelson

Quote: Even the gods love jokes. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher

Quote: There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. Author: J. J. Procter American Businessman

Quote: One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin

Quote: A poor joke must invent its own laughter. Author: Latin Proverb Sayings of Latin Origin

Quote: The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh Author: Carl Reiner American Director, Actor

Quote: Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Author: Will Rogers 1879-1935, American Humorist, Actor

Quote: Humor is the affectionate communication of insight. Author: Leo Rosten 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist

Quote: 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 Author: Leo Rosten 1908-1997, Polish Born American Political Scientist

Quote: Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else. Author: William E. Rothschild

Quote: 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. Author: Constance Rourke 1885-1941, American Author

Quote: Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice. Author: David Seabury American Doctor, Author

Quote: Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. Author: Gilbert Seldes

Quote: It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor. Author: Lord Shaftesbury 1671-1713, British Statesman

Quote: The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts. Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

Quote: 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. Author: Alfred E. Smith 1873-1944, American Politician

Quote: The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

Quote: Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. Author: Stephen Sondheim 1930-, American Composer, Lyricist

Quote: For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies. Author: Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author

Quote: A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. Author: Lionel Strachey

Quote: What some people invent the rest enlarge. Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist

Quote: By blood a king, in heart a clown. Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet

Quote: As a person is so must you humor them. Author: Terence BC 185-18159, Roman Writer of Comedies

Quote: Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. Author: William M. Thackeray 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist

Quote: Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator

Quote: 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. Author: James Thurber 1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator

Quote: Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. Author: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 1853-1917, British actor-manager

Quote: Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. Author: Lionel Trilling 1905-1975, American Critic

Quote: Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. Author: Harry S. Truman 1884-1972, Thirty-third President of the USA

Quote: Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

Quote: Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole. Author: Source Unknown

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

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

Quote: Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor. Author: Source Unknown

Quote: Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Author: Peter Ustinov 1921-, British Actor, Writer, Director

Quote: I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell? Author: Andy Warhol 1930-, American Artist, Filmmaker

Quote: It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean. Author: Mae West 1892-1980, American Actress

Quote: Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side. Author: Edwin P. Whipple 1819-1886, American Essayist

Quote: If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her. Author: Nicol Williamson

Quote: Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun. Author: Flip Wilson 1933-, American Actor, Comedian

Quote: 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. Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889-1951, Austrian Philosopher

Quote: Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors. Author: Johann Georg Zimmermann 1957-, German Physicist

Quote: I've had a perfectly wonderful evening but this wasn't it. Author: groucho marx

Quote: If there is anything a _ _ _ _ _ hates it's a drooping mustache Author: Evan Esar

Quote: How bout I answer your question with another question; how many abo-digitals do you see modelling? Author: derek zoolander male model

Quote: a kid asked his teacher what sex was. the teacher said "Oh your married too?" Author: anthony asdfadfsa

Quote: " do sober, what you said you'd do drunk and that will teach you to keep your mouth shut." Author: annie smith

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