These humor quotes will inspire you. Humor, the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging humor quotes, humor sayings, and humor proverbs.
Inspirational Humor Quotes
- “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” ~ James Thurber
- “Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.” ~ Simon Wiesenthal
- “There’s no life without humor. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.” ~ Rufus Wainwright
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“Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.” ~ Cyndi Lauper
- “A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.” ~ Hugh Sidey , Sense of humor quotes
- “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you’ve lost a very important part of your life.” ~ Brooke Shields
- “Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the Weather.” ~ Bill Hicks , Humor quotes about life
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“Laughter is more serious than tears.” ~ Toni Morrison
- “Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more physiological, benefits. Apparently, it boosts the immune system, reduces stress hormones, massages the heart and diaphragm and engenders a ‘feel good’ factor.” ~ Semir Zeki , Laughter humor quotes
- “Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.” ~ Edward de Bono
- “A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.” ~ William Arthur Ward
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“I can’t be funny if my feet don’t feel right.” ~ Billy Crystal
- “The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.” ~ Robert Olen Butler
- “Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.” ~ Wyndham Lewis
- “I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: ‘Monsieur, don’t forget your pencil.’ It was very unkind, but most funny.” ~ Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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“My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.” ~ Jim Carrey
- “Think of what would happen to us… if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.” ~ Thomas Lansing Masson
- “Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” ~ Miles Kington
- “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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“Sure, there’s no ‘i’ in team, but there is an ‘m’ and an ‘e’.” ~ Kevin Myers
- “It’s a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied, and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.” ~ A. A. Gill
- “Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humor, the writing is on the wall.” ~ Alan Bennett
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“He laughs best whose laugh lasts.” ~ Laurence J. Peter
- “Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.” ~ George Saintsbury
- “Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.” ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
- “The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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“As soon as I got funny, I killed any majestic intentions in my work.” ~ William Wegman
- “All of us have schnozzles… if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.” ~ Jimmy Durante
- “It is sometimes forgotten how much wit there is in certain works of abstract art. There is a certain point in undergoing anguish when one encounters the comic.” ~ Robert Motherwell , Humor quotes about work
- “Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.” ~ Deepak Chopra
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“The comedy gods are smiling on me tonight.” ~ Bill Maher
- “I’m discovering there are innumerable ways to package, promote and sell my humor, as long as I reserve a little for myself to keep bouncing back and laughing off the rejections that are also part of the art of cartooning.” ~ Mark Evelyn Heath
- “It was a dangerous profession I had chosen … because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.” ~ Art Buchwald
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“HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.” ~ Alice Walker
- “Jokes often arise involuntarily, like dreams, and tend to be swiftly forgotten. From these similarities, Freud inferred that jokes and dreams share a common origin in the unconscious. Both are essentially means of outwitting our inner ‘censor’.” ~ Jim Holt
- “The owl and the pussycat went to sea, / In a beautiful pea-green boat. / They took some honey, and plenty of money, / Wrapped up in a five-pound note.” ~ Edward Lear
- “The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half-truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!” ~ Michael Flanders
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“All humor is rooted in pain.” ~ Richard Pryor
- “You can’t take yourself too seriously.” ~ LeRoy Neiman
- “A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.” ~ Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- “Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?” ~ John Updike
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“A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.” ~ Will Rogers
- “A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- “Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.” ~ Ira Glass
- “Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.” ~ Barry Cryer
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“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.” ~ Sacha Guitry
- “You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.” ~ Maurice Chevalier
- “I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.” ~ Emo Philips
- “If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!” ~ Bill Watterson
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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” ~ Steve Martin
- “You’d be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever.” ~ Ernest Cline
- “A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.” ~ Texas Guinan
- “The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” ~ George Carlin
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“The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self-confidence and good humor.” ~ Charles Dickens
- “Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in caverns beyond the Milky Way. It is a hollow thing, sweet on the outside, but filled with the pathos of fruitless aspiration.” ~ H. P. Lovecraft
- “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” ~ Claude Levi-Strauss
- “Cling tight to your sense of humor. You will need it every day.” ~ T. E. Lawrence
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“Humour is human. Why? Well, because the Philosopher, Aristotle, says so.” ~ Simon Critchley
- “Remember that the wit, humor, and jokes of most mixed companies are local. They thrive in that particular soil, but will not often bear transplanting.” ~ Lord Chesterfield
- “One minute I’m exactly what Churchill described me the most powerful man in history. Now the Order’s given, hell; I’m just audience front row center to the shoe. But a Corporal on Juno, a Private on Utah there the ones who will affect the outcome not me. It’s up to them now.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “The old water heater in my dressing room was working, but it was kind of tired. It gave off about as much warmth as an agent’s handshake.” ~ Bob Hope
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“Please go on, make your threats. I don’t like to submit to mere implication.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
- “I think of myself as a writer with a sense of humor rather than a comedy writer. Happy to tell a story with lots of jokes in it – I wouldn’t know how to do jokes without the story.” ~ Steven Moffat
- “The interesting thing is that you don’t often meet a poet who doesn’t have a sense of humor, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers.” ~ Wendy Cope
