Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Lord Byron

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Lord Chesterfield

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Lord Chesterfield

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Lord Chesterfield

Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries; and by saying Well, and so?--as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.

Malcolm Gladwell

The Law of the Few,... says that one critical factor in epidemics is the nature of the messenger.

Maika Monroe

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained

Mahmoud Abbas

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

Maimonides

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

Maimonides

I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility, when their existence belongs to the future, does not change the nature of the possible in any way; that nature remains unchanged; and the knowledge of the realisation of one of several possibilities does not yet effect that realisation. This is likewise one of the fundamental principles of the Law of Moses concerning which there is no doubt nor any dispute.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Don't Latin Americans have the right to ask why their elected governments are being opposed and coup leaders supported? Poverty and hardship in large parts of Africa are preventing this from happening. Don't they have the right to ask why their enormous wealth - including minerals - is being looted, despite the fact that they need it more than others?

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The highest state is laughter.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Laughter is the language of the heart

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

Mahatma Gandhi

That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach.

Mahatma Gandhi

There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being.

Mahatma Gandhi

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

Mahatma Gandhi

As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist

Mahatma Gandhi

There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

Gavin Hood

Hany Abu-Assad was sitting next to me, and his film 'Paradise Now' had won the Golden Globe. He said to me at the Globes, 'Paradise now, talk to you later.' [laughs] I gave him a big hug for that.