Scott Adams Quotes

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

I find heartbreaking stuff really funny.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

I swear, sometimes I am convinced my life is just a series of sketches for America's Funniest Home Videos, minus all that pants-dropping business. Except my life really isn't all that funny if you think about it.

Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

Great minds don't think alike. If they did, the Patent Office would only have about fifty inventions.

The last living boy in America drops into my bedroom only he wants to be a monk. I think that pretty much sums up my life.

I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, "What's funny about it?"

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in Manhattan and throughout New York state, but none of them seemed promising. My favorite? The Institute for Realizing Your Pet's Inner Potential. Anyone who can explain that to me, drop a line.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

Eat bitter, taste sweet

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

Cute? I think my testosterone level just dropped - Ranger