Fear Quote by Peter Atkins

“The key to Lincoln's famous employment of humor is not that he failed to appreciate the tragic aspects of human existence, but rather that…

— Elton Trueblood

“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should…

— Abraham Lincoln

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

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

— Abraham Lincoln

“The world might be vicious and treacherous and deadly, but it couldn’t kill laughter. Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things…

— Jim Butcher

“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”   Abraham Lincoln”

— Rriiver Nyile

“And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is…

— Philip K. Dick

“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

“When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon…

— William Saroyan

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Historians tell a story about Abraham Lincoln, that while returning to Washington from Springfield, he forced his entire party to stop to help some…

— Jonathan Safran Foer