Humor Quotes

• 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.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Inspiring, Depression, Funny Inspirational

  "On the Art of Business". Book by James Howard Merkel, Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij, p.66, February 1, 2004.

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• Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Civilization, Comedy

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• Wit is cultured insolence.

  Aristotle

  Insolence, Wit

  Aristotle (1959). “Aristotle, with an English Translation: The "Art" of Rhetoric”

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.

  James Dewar

  Funny, Education, Attitude

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• What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

  Angela Davis

  Country, Political, Needs

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• Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Hilarious, Health

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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  Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

  Miles Kington

  Funny, Hilarious, Wise

  The Independent (UK), March 28, 2003.

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• A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

  Billy Graham

  Adversity, Overcoming, Unconventional

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  In Saturday Review 25 Aug. 1962

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• Humor is the good natured side of a truth.

  Mark Twain

  Sides, Good Nature

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.190, Courier Corporation

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Knowing, People

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

  Thomas Szasz

  Depression, Prayer, Humorous

  The Second Sin "Schizophrenia" (1973)

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• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Laughter, Creativity

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Laughter, Life And Love, Thinking

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• What's another word for Thesaurus?

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Silly

  "Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, edited by Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels & Irené Wotherspoon" by Steven Poole, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2009.

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• I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

  Daniel Handler

  Enemy, Add, Lists

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• Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  World, Way, Mood

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• If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

  John Cleese

  Ideas, Laughing, Acknowledge

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing in the world is power without humor.

  Eric Sevareid

  Power, Honor, World

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Common Sense, Dancing

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• Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.

  Leo Rosten

  Communication, Play, Insight

  Leo Calvin Rosten (1964). “The Many Worlds of L*e*o R*o*s*t*e*n: Stories, Humor, Social Commentary, Travelogues, Satire, Memoirs, Profiles, and Sundry Entertainments Never Before Published; with a Special Introd., Background Notes, Revelations and Confessions, All Hand-written and Themselves Worth the Price of Admission”

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