“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
The Big Picture: An American Commentary (1991)
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A. Whitney Brown 3
American stand-up comedian 1952Related quotes
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor https://books.google.com/books?id=60FkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Humor+is+laughing+at+what+you+haven%27t+got+when+you+ought+to+have+it.%22, p. vii (1966)
“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
“Do not say before hand what you are going to do; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.”
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, i. 78.
Lettert to George C. Latham (22 July 1860) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln4/1:108?rgn=div1;view=fulltext; published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (1953) by Roy P. Basler, vol. 4, p. 4<!-- New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press -->
1860s
Context: I have scarcely felt greater pain in my life than on learning yesterday from Bob's letter, that you had failed to enter Harvard University. And yet there is very little in it, if you will allow no feeling of discouragement to seize, and prey upon you. It is a certain truth, that you can enter, and graduate in, Harvard University; and having made the attempt, you must succeed in it. ``Must´´ is the word. I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.
“Come, my love, the stage is waiting,
Be the one to save my saving grace.”
"Jesus Saves, I Spend"
Marry Me (2007)
