Rafael Sabatini Quotes

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

A sense of humor is the main measure of sanity.

It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

If you don't have humor, you're not going to make it. You're going to be one of those people who walks around with your head about to explode.

I think it's critical, a sense of humor. It did help me - it does help me, continuously.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

Having a sense of humor about yourself is a sign of mental health.

Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.