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Quotes About Adversity

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.
~ Cassandra Clare
My experience is to deal with things through humor.
~ Michael J. Fox
You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!
~ James Dashner, The Maze Runner
The only thing that you can get into without a lot of trouble is a lot of trouble.
~ Bill Cosby
Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
~ Bill Mauldin
Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away
~ Benjamin Franklin
She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
~ Mae West
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.
~ Steven Wright
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
~ Erica Jong
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.
~ Ron Howard
I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
~ Robert Orben
You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.
~ Smiley Blanton
If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.
~ James Russell Lowell
My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.
~ Jimmy Carr
When God gives you AIDS - and God does give you AIDS, by the way - make lemonAIDS.
~ Sarah Silverman
There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.
~ Paul Newman
My legs tired, ain't your legs tired!? His legs ain't Tired! He Just... Tinktinktinktinktinktink, TinktinkTinktinkTinktink!! Just paperclips and Sparks everywhere!
~ Katt Williams
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
~ Mark Twain
The deeper the pit, the more humor you need to dig yourself out of it.
~ Jim Norton
That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
~ Bill Watterson
British education is probably the best in the world, if you can survive it. If you can't there is nothing left for you but the diplomatic corps.
~ Peter Ustinov
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
~ Ayn Rand
Thank God you've got a sense of humor, or you'd be in trouble.
~ Eartha Kitt