Quotes about humor

"Humor -- the perfect relationship of the parts to the whole."

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

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

Unknown, Source on humor
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"Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth -- a sense of humor."

Unknown, Source on humor   

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Ustinov, Peter on humor
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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 on humor   

"It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean."

West, Mae on humor
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"Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side."

Whipple, Edwin P. on humor   

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

Williamson, Nicol on humor
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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 on humor
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"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 on humor   

"Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors."

Zimmermann, Johann Georg on humor   

"To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life."

Burgess, (Frank) Gelett on humor   

"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"

Colby, Frank Moore on humor
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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

Havel, Vaclav on humor
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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 on humor   

"An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten."

Rourke, Constance on humor
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"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony."

Sabatini, Rafael on humor   

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"There's no trick to being humorous when you have the whole government working for you. "

Rogers, Will on humor   

"Humor is the sunshine of the mind"

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on humor