Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Kingsbury

The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.

Karen Kingsbury

Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.

Josh Smith

I'm a happy, happy person. I laugh. I'm not angry. I'm only disgusted with a few people in the world that I have to see. But I'm not angry at all.

Josh Peck

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

Josh Peck

To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.

Josh Radnor

There are just things you can explore in a movie that you can't in 22 minutes with a laugh track.

Joseph Conrad

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

Joseph Conrad

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

Kate Millett

Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.

Leonard Cohen

It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

Lawrence Welk

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

Lars von Trier

If people do not laugh it's not comedy.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

Julie Garwood

Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another. “Sir, which one is Princess Christina?” Andrew asked Lyon, just as Rhone started in choking on his laughter. Rhone has obviously been watching Christina, too. “Sir?” “The blond-headed one,” Lyon muttered, shaking his head. He watched in growing disbelief as Christina daintily popped another leaf into her mouth. “Which blond-headed one?” Andrew persisted. “The one eating the shrubs.

Julianne Hough

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

Jules Renard

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

Jules Renard

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.

Josh Billings

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Ouida

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Kanye West

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

Judy Gold

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

Joyce Meyer

I encourage you to deliberately look for something to smile or laugh about every day, and be sure to share a smile or a laugh with someone else and brighten their day too!

Paul Krassner

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Martin Luther

The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

Martin Luther

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Martin Luther

If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter.

Martin Luther

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

Missy Elliot

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

P. G. Wodehouse

I laughed derisively. "For goodness' sake, don't start gargling now. This is serious." "I was laughing." "Oh, were you? Well, I'm glad to see you taking it in this merry spirit." "Derisively," I explained.

P. G. Wodehouse

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

Ovid

A mind conscious of right laughs at the falsehoods of rumour. [Lat., Conscia mens recti famae mendacia risit.]

Ovid

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Mary Wortley Montagu

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.