Mark Twain Quotes

If one tends to be a humorous person and you have a sense of humor the rest of your life then you can certainly lighten the load, I think, by bringing that to your trials and tribulations. It's easy to have a sense of humor when everything is going well.

You've got to have a sense of humor to keep your sanity.

I can't fall apart every time I mention that my mother's gone. I actually laugh about stories or things or situations. Of course there's a wound that will never be patched up, but I approach it with humor. Of course, I don't overlook it and go straight for the humor, but I think we have to have humor to move forward.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

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.

Even in the middle of tragedy, we find moments of humor, moments of tenderness, of simple happiness.

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.

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.

Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

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

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can’t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can’t exist on a diet without it, either.

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

I think a sense of humor is the most important thing anyone can have.

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

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.