Frank Moore Colby on humor

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw1856–1950The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act V

• Life & Death

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain1835–1910“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us?” (1897)

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosbyborn 1937