Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

May Sarton

Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

May Sarton

Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

Max Eastman

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Max Eastman

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

Max Eastman

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Max Frisch

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?

Maureen Dowd

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Maureen Johnson

It took about three minutes for the unassuming Waffle House to become the new offices of the law firm of Amber, Amber, Amber, and Madison. They set up camp in a clump of booths in the corner opposite from us. A few of them gave me an "oh, good, you are still alive" nod, but for the most part, they had no interest in anyone else.

Matthew Weiner

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

Matthew Lewis

I love making people laugh.

Matthew Lewis

Leeds is quite laid-back.

Matthew Henry

Those who deceive others, deceive themselves, as they will find at last, to their cost.

Matthew Henry

By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.

Matt LeBlanc

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

Maya Rudolph

I really love laughing.

Maynard James Keenan

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

Maya Angelou

If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

Maya Angelou

We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same.

Maya Angelou

There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends

Maya Angelou

Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

Maya Angelou

Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

Maya Angelou

I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

Maya Angelou

I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Maya Angelou

Laugh as much as you can.

Matt Stone

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

Matthew Arnold

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Matthew Ashford

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

Matthew Arnold

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matt Taibbi

In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

Matt Taibbi

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

Matt Taibbi

Greenspan's eventual explanation for the growing gap between stock prices and actual productivity was that, fortuitously, the laws of nature had changed -- humanity had reached a happy stage of history where bullshit could be used as rocket fuel.

Meg Cabot

You and me?” I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.” “That’s what you think,” Chaz says, tugging on his coat. “And I’ll be damned if I’m going to wait around until you figure out that isn’t true.” “Fine,” I say “I’m not asking you to, am I?” “No.” Chaz is smiling… but not like he’s happy. “But you would if you had the slightest idea what was good for you.” And with that, he yanks open the door and storms through it, slamming it closed behind him with enough force to cause the windowpanes to rattle. And then he’s gone.