Comedy Quote by Elton Trueblood

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. - Abraham Lincoln”

— Peter Atkins

“Moreover, Lincoln possessed an uncanny understanding of his shifting moods, a profound self-awareness that enabled him to find constructive ways to alleviate sadness and…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). William Howard Taft joked about his own…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Lincoln’s most prominent feature—the perpetual look of sadness. He’d been to the battle fields, he’d read the prison reports. No wonder he was so…

— Katherine Lowry Logan

“Lincoln replied that he was more than willing to die, but that he had “done nothing to make any human being remember that he…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The ambition to establish a reputation worthy of the esteem of his fellows so that his story could be told after his death had…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Whatever greatness Lincoln achieved cannot be explained as a triumph over personal suffering. Rather, it must be accounted for as an outgrowth of the…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

“Lincoln said that “folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“A sense of humor is a requisite to surviving in our demanding world”

— Janette Oke

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“Abraham Lincoln suffered through depression through his life and then suffered through the pain of conducting a civil war, and emerged with the sense…

— David Brooks