Conviction Quote by Laura Hillenbrand

His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and…

— John McLeod

“And he began to see his world as an amusing place where ridiculous things happened and where a man or woman could obey all…

— Alaska by James A. Michener

...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

— Henry James

“They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he had no idea what he was saying, so great was his…

— Boris Pasternak

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.”

— Rafael Sabatini

“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune was out…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“... he found he was suffering from laugh-deficit disorder.”

— Dean Koontz

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of…

— Colum McCann

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson