Erma Bombeck Quotes

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

Is everything funny? For me, yes. There's a positive to every negative. Even my divorce? For me, yes. If you go back and look at it, why it happened or how it happened, there's something in there that'll make you laugh.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.

I try to maintain the perspective that life is meant to be laughed at.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

I think my comedy is about finding the good in bad situations - finding the joy. Why be angry? It doesn't help anything.

I just think about how much worse something could be, and I'm like, 'Alright, cool, whatever.' I'm nonchalant.

I believe in accepting whatever life offers with a laugh. So if things are dark and terrible, I try to find the funny side to it. Probably that's why I gravitate towards comedy.

You've got to laugh at life, you can't take it all too seriously.

I am not saying everything's perfect, but I embrace anything bad because that makes me appreciate all the good.

I look at the world and I find the funny in it, because there's funny in everything. No matter how ugly it may be, there's a funny way to look at it.

One must take what comes, with laughter.

If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.

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

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

For sure, you don't believe the good stuff. I mean, the good stuff is just insane - wacky. If you don't take it too much to heart, it does help when the negative stuff hits. And you know the negative stuff is coming. It's got to! What comes up must come down.

Anyway, it's good to be sent back to the underground. There's always a good side to bad things and the good side to this is that at least everyone has to go back down.