Famous Quotes

"I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor."

Horatio Nelson on Humor

More quotes about Humor

• "A joke is a very serious thing."

  Winston Churchill on Humor

• "Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."

  Mark Twain on Humor

• "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

  William James on Humor

• "If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Humor

• "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

  Henry Ward Beecher on Humor

More quotes by Horatio Nelson

• "Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone."

• "Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better."

• "First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can."

• "Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."

• "Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be."