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There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.


Thomas W. Higginson

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THOMAS W. HIGGINSON A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the
universe.
MEL BROOKS That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour.
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
CICERO Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
CHAD SMITH Life is an audition.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R...
DEYTH BANGER The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work ...
KAREN HUGHES It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which ...
WILLIAM GODWIN In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, th...
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Food is sort of like the Jewish sense of humor, a defense mechanism. It is one of the things that he...
GIL MARKS There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
P. W. BRIDGMAN No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life...
JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.
TOM ROBBINS As I get older, my sense of humor is my biggest asset.
DAVID ALAN GRIER I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with infor...
ANITA HILL There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, ca...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and tha...
HARVEY CUSHING There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and t...
HARVEY WILLIAMS CUSHING Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to ...
CARTER BURWELL It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
DAN MARINO A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
CLIVE JAMES There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.
BOB NEWHART Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
OSCAR WILDE Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
OSCAR WILDE Father said I have no sense of humor at all. He said I was unequipped to meet life because I have no...
J.D. SALINGER Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
LYN KAROL The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.
MARK TWAIN He had an incredible sense of humor.
DIANE GOLDEN I have no sense of humor about losing
RAFAEL NADAL I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
EDWARD ALBEE I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
MICHAEL J. FOX There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as rel...
NOAM CHOMSKY There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMES There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision
WILLIAM JAMES Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
J. ORACOY I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
BRANDON SANDERSON I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush sp...
CHELSEA HANDLER The repeal of laws as a means to roll back the state is not unjustified. For example, there is no co...
DANIEL ALEXANDER BRACKINS When we grow this fish, there is no adverse impact on the environment.
KAROL RZEPKOWSKI There is no humor in heaven.
MARK TWAIN One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.
RALPH FIENNES Harriet resisted, until Tara pulled out the big move...the combination "lean-against nuzzle, with a ...
DAVID ROSENFELT For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endura...
THOMAS MANN Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
JOSEPH ADDISON To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matt...
THOMAS LIGOTTI Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against di...
LAUREL LEE Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion w...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no h...
MARK TWAIN There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning...
ABHIJIT NASKAR There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal
CALVIN COOLIDGE There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
SOPHOCLES Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.
STEPHEN HAWKING Kindness is really important to me in finding my own prince - so are patience and a sense of humor. ...
ANNE HATHAWAY I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...
SINCLAIR LEWIS There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has nev...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Fortune and humor govern the world.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it t...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twic...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twi...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
BILL KRISTOL Truth is the best defense.
WARD CHURCHILL Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, ...
CHRISTIAN NEVELL BOVEE This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.
JOHN CALLAHAN If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA There is no client as scary as an innocent man."

J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defen...
MICHAEL CONNELLY There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
JAMES JOYCE There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SOPHOCLES Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sens...
E. B. WHITE I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON Carl Reiner. He had an entrenched sense of glee; he used humor as a gentle way of speaking difficult...
STEVE MARTIN Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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W. G. SEBALD I don't want to talk about my trials and tribulations. Once you reveal even part of what your re...
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W. G. SEBALD You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were s...
W. G. SEBALD People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes,...
W. G. SEBALD I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the na...
W. G. SEBALD The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear t...
W. G. SEBALD It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You...
W. G. SEBALD In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; ther...
W. G. SEBALD I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. EUGENE SMITH Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. EUGENE SMITH The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.
W. EUGENE SMITH If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day aft...
W. DANIEL HILLIS A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they'r...
W. DANIEL HILLIS Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
W. D. RICHTER Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
W. D. RICHTER