I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson
More from: Horatio Nelson
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. -
Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory. -
When humor can be made to alternate with melancholy, one has a success, but when the same things are funny and melancholic at the same time, it's just wonderful. -
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know. -
We do not take humor seriously enough.
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.