Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Adorno

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Michael Ondaatje

she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.

Max Frisch

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Matthew Lewis

I love making people laugh.

Maya Rudolph

I really love laughing.

Maya Angelou

We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

Maya Angelou

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Matthew Ashford

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

Maya Angelou

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

Max Beerbohm

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

Martin Luther

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Marlo Thomas

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

Niels Bohr

If we couldn't laugh at ourselves, that would be the end of everything.

Mireille Enos

I like laughter around me.

Michael Jackson

I like people who can make you laugh without using vulgarity, or bad words.

Mehmet Oz

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

Abraham Lincoln

Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

Jean Paul

Laughing cheerfulness throws the light of day on all the paths of life.

Jenny Slate

When I'm on stage, and when I'm comfortable or uncomfortable, I have sort of a knee-jerk reaction to try to make people laugh. It's my version of a handshake to show that I want to make a connection and to show what I'm truly like. It's kind of my statement like, "This is what I'm really like. I'd like you to love me."

Evan Esar

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

Jean Cocteau

I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter.

Cassandra Clare

Enough, both of you,' Clary said. 'You can't be complete jerks to each other forever, you know.' Technically,' said Simon, 'I can.' Jace made an inelegant noise; after a moment Clary realized that he was trying not to laugh, and only semi-succeeding.

Gabourey Sidibe

I wanted to be a psychologist. You know, I thought that's what I'd be doing and it just goes to show you that, if you tell God your plans, He will laugh in your face.

Chris Hardwick

There's a lot of laughing on a horror movie set. They're magical in that way.

Christine Feehan

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

Jeanette Winterson

Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.

Jennifer Garner

I'd rather be the bloke laughing at other people. I don't need to make people laugh. I surround myself with funny people. I laugh all the time.

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.

Jack Bruce

If you haven't got a sense of humor you're making your life a hundred times harder. It doesn't matter what happens to you, if you can have a laugh about it, and don't take yourself so serious, you have the battles halfway won.

Bill Cosby

Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

Catullus

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Bette Davis

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.