Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryant H. McGill

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

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.

Carl Davis

There are no happy times at Happy Times .

Woody Allen

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

David McKenzie

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

Alfred Jarry

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Tom Shadyac

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Evan Esar

Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

Georges Bataille

The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

Catullus

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Kate Millett

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Linda Ellerbee

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

Paul McCartney

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

Baruch Spinoza

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Jane Campion

I fell in love again (laughs).

Catherine O'Hara

I'm afraid to laugh out loud, because there's so much information.

Carrot Top

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Dean Koontz

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

Craig Ferguson

I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.

Drew Carey

I've always got stuff in my head in case I meet somebody like Steven Spielberg or someone like that, where I can hopefully say something to them that nobody else has ever said and get a laugh out of them.

Andy Serkis

I remember once, I read in a horoscope, because I'm an Aries, I read this terrible thing, which really affected me, which said, "You will never be original. You will always be an interpreter." (Laughs) I thought, "Oh my God." You know, I had to live with that on my back for [all my life].

Barry Humphries

When people laugh at me, they are not laughing in the way that they normally would at a comedian. They are laughing with relief, because the truth has been spoken, and political correctness has not strangled this particular gigastar.