228 quotes found
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the road.”
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
“If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.”
“The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always though in the midst of sorrows and possess all thi...”
“A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.”
“So long as one does not despair so long as one doesn't look upon life bitterly things work out fairly well in the end.”
“Were it not for my little jokes I could not bear the burdens of this office.”
“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
“Humor is an attitude. It's a way of looking at life and of telling others how you feel about what's happening around you.”
“If you are distressed by anything external the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
“Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.”
“Comedy is tragedy plus time.”
“Little things affect little minds.”
“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.”
“Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.”
“No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the indivi...”
“What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.”
“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.”
“There are more serious problems in life than financial ones and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before and will be again. Heartbroke? That's serious. Lose a few bucks? That's not.”
