Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Johnson

Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

Art Linkletter

And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.

Brenda Ueland

Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Juvenal

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Al Franken

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.

Demi Moore

I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.

Blaise Pascal

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

Charles Spurgeon

An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

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.

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I feel that there is reason lurking in you somewhere, so we will patiently grope round for it.

Art Buchwald

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

Elaine Stritch

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Kara Walker

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

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.

Bob Costas

Any good broadcast, not just an Olympic broadcast, should have texture to it. It should have information, should have some history, should have something that's offbeat, quirky, humorous, and where called for it, should have journalism, and judiciously it should also have commentary. That's my ideal.

Dennis Ritchie

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

Brandon Cruz

Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten.

Barbara Mikulski

I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many.

Ayrton Senna

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

Ayn Rand

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Brian Tracy

You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all

C. S. Lewis

Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things.

Bobby Darin

When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting

Jamie Lee Curtis

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

Janice Dickinson

In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything.