Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jill Sobule

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Jennifer Egan

Even the financial disclosure statements that political bloggers were required to post hadn't stemmed the suspicion that people's opinions weren't really their own. "Who's paying you?" was a retort that might follow any bout of enthusiasm, along with laughter - who would let themselves be bought?

Groucho Marx

Humor is reason gone mad.

Harpo Marx

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Homer

Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

Ian Rankin

It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket.

Ian Somerhalder

Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is second

Hugh Sidey

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

Howie Mandel

My parents both had a great sense of humor, and always laughed a lot. One night, when they were watching 'Candid Camera,' I finally understood what comedy was all about. I heard the laughter on television, I turned around and saw my parents laughing, and that's when I thought: 'This is great. This is what I can do. I'm gonna prank somebody.'

Horace

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Horace

The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter.

Hannah Arendt

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

Gore Vidal

In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter.

Gina Barreca

We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

Harold Ramis

Groundhog Day was pretty clean. It may have to do with some puritanical feeling that comedy is a forbidden pleasure in a certain way. They make you laugh, and laughter is somehow an inferior emotion to tragedy.

Jamaica Kincaid

Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

Jennifer Aniston

People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.

Jennifer Aniston

The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor.

Jim Dale

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

Jesmyn Ward

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

Jenny Eclair

A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

Gilda Radner

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Gunter Grass

On sorrow floats laughter.

Jim Butcher

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

Jim Butcher

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

Jim Butcher

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Jim Butcher

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Jim Butcher

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Honore de Balzac

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Iris Murdoch

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

Immanuel Kant

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immanuel Kant

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Francis Quarles

Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain: the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.