Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

Alan Watts

There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

Alan Watts

Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

Chinua Achebe

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.

Edmond de Goncourt

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Dawn Powell

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

David Walliams

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

Eddie Izzard

The National Rifle Association says, 'Guns don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.

Eddie Izzard

If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

Antonin Artaud

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Benjamin Franklin

Sarcasm is the lowest form of humor but the highest form of flattery.

Jane Austen

You have delighted us long enough.

Daniel Johns

People don't understand sarcasm, like, they take everything too seriously. People need to lighten up and go ice skating.

David Foster Wallace

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

Simone Elkeles

Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?" "It sucked." "Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks. "It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word.

Veronica Roth

Sarcasm is always at someone's expense.

Dalai Lama

Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do.

Rudyard Kipling

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.