Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francois Rabelais

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

To laugh is proper to man.

Francois Rabelais

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

Francois Rabelais

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

Francois Rabelais

Don't limp in front of the lame.

Francois Rabelais

Do not limp before the lame. [Old Fr., Ne clochez pas devant les boyteus.]

Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

George Carman

Law is a very addictive profession.

George Chapman

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

George Carlin

I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

Christopher Hitchens

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

Christopher Darden

That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.

Christopher Durang

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

Christine Todd Whitman

Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.

Christine Quinn

Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.

Christina Romer

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

Christina Applegate

Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine.

Christina Applegate

There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness.

Christina Aguilera

People expect me to cry, but I always laugh when things go wrong.

Christian Lacroix

I look for friends who make me laugh.

Chris Rock

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

Chris Rock

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

Chris Rock

The only reaction that frightens me is people not laughing. It's extraordinary to me when you get a laugh. That you can go in front of a bunch of people you never met before, you can say some stuff and they all laugh in unison - that's amazing. It's a miracle.

Chris Rock

When I do something good, the audience lets me know immediately. They laugh. That's it.

Chris Murray

Success would be a fairly boring and uninspiring dish if anybody could create it with a single ingredient, however difficult that ingredient was to find. No, success has several layers to its pallet. This is just the beginning

Chris Martin

I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it.

Chris Matthews

There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.

Chris Matthews

Everything he's done is clean as a whistle. He's never not only broken any law, he's never done anything wrong.

Gilbert Highet

Language is a living thing

Francis Bacon

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

Frances Wright

Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.

Francesca Lia Block

You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

Frances Mayes

The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool.