Famous Quotes & Sayings

The older you were, the more likely to be sitting there wincing. The younger people were laughing along.

Charlie Chaplin

The most wasted day in life is the day in which one has not laughed....

Chris Barnes

Earl was laughing about it by then. He thought it was funny.

Herman Edwards

At this point, it's 2006, and we got our first win of 2006. It's something to kind of laugh about, but it's important for us to point this organization in the right way. ... Like I have said many times, it's not a condition; it was just a season. It's over for us.

Scott Thompson

Don't look at the person next to you to see if it's okay to laugh! Just laugh people!

They kind of laughed it off like it's a big joke, but it's ultimately the same issue.

J. Taylor

They had to remove all the nerves on the right side of my face, so when I smile, only the left side works. My wife laughs at me. She tells me not to smile.

Susan Stroman

This movie is like a little life raft for him. He laughs every time he comes to see it.

It was one that made me laugh out loud.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself

Grete Waitz

One day you are happy and laughing and the next you are crying.

Horace

For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

Horace

It is time for thee to be gone, lest the age more decent in its wantonness should laugh at thee and drive thee of the stage. [Lat., Tempus abire tibi est, ne . . . Rideat et pulset lasciva decentius aetas.]

Herman Melville

The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

Herman Melville

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Herman Melville

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

Herman Melville

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

Henry David Thoreau

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

H. Allen Smith

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

Jillian Bach

TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic.

Jill Sobule

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

Eugene Ionesco

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying

Estelle Parsons

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Ethel Merman

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them

Erma Bombeck

For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

Erma Bombeck

...I remember thinking how often we look, but never see...we listen, but never hear...we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

Erma Bombeck

Laugh now, cry later.

Henry Louis Gates

I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I didn't do any White people. [laughter] I was shocked, because my mandate is to do Black studies. It would have never occurred to me if this lady hadn't written this letter. We decided we were going expand the brand and do everybody.

Henry Miller

If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more. I don't say that God is one grand laugh: I say that you've got to laugh hard before you can get anywhere near God. My whole aim in life is to get near to God, that is, to get nearer to myself. That's why it doesn't matter to me what road I take. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.

Henri Barbusse

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Henri Bergson

On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a pleasure that is exclusively esthetic or altogether disinterested. It always implies a secret or unconscious intent, if not of each one of us, at all events of society as a whole. In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate, and consequently to correct our neighbour, if not in his will, at least in his deed.