Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Rodgers

Most of us laugh at these other sports.

One of those things we'll be able to laugh about in 20 years.

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.

Berkeley Breathed

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

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.

Bertrand Russell

Televison allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone.

We don't take it seriously. It's like we are laughing the whole time. We are high-fiving each other on the way to the set in the limo.

I suppose I was strange. People used to laugh and shout olŽ! Now I am nothing unusual, like someone walking a dog.

Shirley Manson

I think they're a little shocked at first. . . . Then they start laughing or grinning or shaking my hand,

We're all kind of in shock. We saw him and were laughing with him in the office this afternoon.

George Herbert

Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing.

Jean de la Bruyere

One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.

Jay Leno

Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all.

Bryan Cranston

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

Jason Isaacs

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Jared Leto

Learn to laugh at your problems, cause everybody else does.

Jane Pauley

I love working with an audience. I love working with actual people who, you know, if they're moved, you see it. If you say something they're stunned by, you see their jaws drop. If they're amused, they laugh - that kind of reinforcement, I totally adore.

Ernst Mach

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

Ernest Dowson

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

Francois Rabelais

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

To laugh is proper to man.

George Carlin

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Christina Applegate

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

Christina Aguilera

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Christian Lacroix

I look for friends who make me laugh.

Chris Rock

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

Chris Rock

The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle.

Chris Rock

When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.

Grete Waitz

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.