Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ricky Williams

realizes that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

William Wordsworth

A day it was when I could bearTo think, and think, and think again;With so much happiness to spare,I could not feel a pain.

Bronson Arroyo

Tell you what, if they keep doing that all year, I'll be super happy.

Tyler Cowen

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'

Antisthenes

Wealth and poverty do not lie in a man's estate, but in men's souls.

Augusten Burroughs

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

Bryant H. McGill

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Jane Austen

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

Jane Austen

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.

Blaise Pascal

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Eileen Caddy

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Alfred Jarry

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Dolly Parton

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

David Simon

Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.

Robert Benchley

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

Rajneesh

Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create as many vibrations of laughter, joy, celebration, as possible; dance, sing, let the whole of humanity by and by catch the fire of Zen and the wind of Zen.

Tom Shadyac

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Art Buchwald

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Arthur Conan Doyle

We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Thomas Reed

One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

Simon Pegg

I mean, yeah, I'm sure that Python and the other things have paved the way for a greater understanding of the British sense of humor, but I don't think it's all that different than the American sense of humor.