Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beth Moore

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.

William Shakespeare

To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

Byron Katie

The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood.

Buddy Hackett

I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

Cary Grant

Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Catherine the Great

you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

Dennis Miller

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Deepak Chopra

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

Deepak Chopra

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

Eben Alexander

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it.

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Bob Hope

One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.

Bob Hope

Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation.

Bob Hope

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Bill Gates

I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky (laughter). But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up.

Bob Monkhouse

Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

Bob Newhart

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

Bob Newhart

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.

Bob Newhart

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

Bo Burnham

In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

Bo Burnham

Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine.

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

Beverley Nichols

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

William Shakespeare

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Through laughter, a lot of the time you can defuse the tension that would usually be there.

James Boswell

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Dianna Agron

Laughter is key. Dancing a must. Because oh, how we do love both things! But most important, possess the ability to be present, be true to your deepest wishes, intentions. Do good unto others, to yourself. Being true to yourself is one of the greatest attributes. Happiness ensues. Be present. Be kind. Be patient. Be honest. Find moments to be silly. The results will always be rewarding.

David Cross

When we were on the bus doing the Mr. Show Hooray for America Tour there was a lot of laughter and a lot of pot smoking and a lot of speed metal listening and video game playing. Of course that was all Brian Posehn.

Dave Barry

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.