Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Vorderman

I've never once heard my mum shout and she's 83 now. She's incredible. She's very, very happy, slightly eccentric but loves laughing, which I do too.

Carlos Mencia

If you aren't laughing, you aren't living!

Alan King

Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.

Charlie Chaplin

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Charlie Chaplin

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Charles Dickens

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

Ricky Gervais

Someone trying to be funny probably isn't as funny as someone who doesn't want to be funny but is and can't help it. Someone being serious or angry might be funny. If you get angry, the first thing I want to do is laugh because I don't know why you're getting that angry. Pathos makes me laugh, funerals make me laugh.

Ricky Gervais

I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?

Ricky Gervais

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Charles Bradlaugh

[That] my body be buried as cheaply as possible and no speeches be permitted at my funeral.

William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Eugene Kennedy

The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.

Marilyn Miller

We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.

John Cavanaugh

We're not planning on doing anything until after the funeral is over. I would imagine we will be getting together within the next several weeks.

David Raskin

He wishes there were more coffins, more funerals and much more pain.

Yiddish Proverb

He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral

Charles Bukowski

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Dave Chappelle

I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

David Morse

I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I can to make me feel good about myself.

Janis Joplin

You know you've got it, if it makes you feel good.

Janet Jackson

You have to feel good about yourself.

Chin-Ning Chu

Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

Ashley Rickards

If I feel good on the inside, I treat my body with more respect.

Jane Fonda

I love films that make you feel good when you come out and, in my opinion, there's not enough of them these days.

Dennis Prager

You have a choice in life very often whether you do good or you feel good.

Aimee Bender

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.