Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice

Charles Spurgeon

An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

Diane Johnson

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Democritus

The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

Elbert Hubbard

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Eileen Caddy

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Edward Abbey

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Earl Nightingale

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Deepak Chopra

The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

David Knopfler

Trust the tale, not the teller.

Chang-Rae Lee

A tale, like the universe, they tell us, expands ceaselessly each time you examine it, until there’s finally no telling exactly where it begins, or ends, or where it places you now.

Aesop

Every tale is not to be believed.

David Gregory

I don't think you mess around when you talk about tales of valor.

Jane Levy

Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.

Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

Erin Morgenstern

The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.

Gregory Peck

I have tales to tell, but I don't tell them. Discretion. Discretion.

Helen Rowland

One man's folly is often another man's wife.

Chuang Tzu

Those who realize their folly are not true fools

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Bible Bible

But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

William Shakespeare

If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.

Bob Costas

You had the gold, gold, gold all but in your hand. By your folly you have disappointed everyone at home and, worse yet, NBC and its advertisers. You were showboating, weren¹t you?

Charles Simmons

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Anger without power is folly.

Benjamin Franklin

Strange! that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satyr; should have folly enough to publish it.