Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Sean O'Casey

A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

Sean O'Casey

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

Neil Postman

Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

Sid Caesar

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Sid Caesar

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

Taylor Swift

Try things. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it.

Josh Peck

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

Joseph Conrad

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Kate Millett

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Linda Howard

Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger.

Linda Ellerbee

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

Leo Tolstoy

Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

Lin Yutang

Even in despair, man must laugh.

Lee Grant

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship.

Terry Wogan

"I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you."

Terry Tempest Williams

Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

Julie Garwood

Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another. “Sir, which one is Princess Christina?” Andrew asked Lyon, just as Rhone started in choking on his laughter. Rhone has obviously been watching Christina, too. “Sir?” “The blond-headed one,” Lyon muttered, shaking his head. He watched in growing disbelief as Christina daintily popped another leaf into her mouth. “Which blond-headed one?” Andrew persisted. “The one eating the shrubs.

Jules Renard

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.

Josh Billings

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Pamela Anderson

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Ouida

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Paul Krassner

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

P. C. Cast

They're Twin-like," Shaunee said. "Hilarious," Erin agreed. "Shut up!" Aphrodite and Stevie Rae said together, which made the Twins convulse into laughter.

Paul McCartney

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

Karen Kingsbury

The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

Ellen Hopkins

Don't make me laugh, I'd much rather cry.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.