Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.

Charlie Chaplin

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Charlie Chaplin

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

Charlie Chaplin

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Chevy Chase

I just went into this business for laughs. I guess I don't mind being an actor so much now.

Chevy Chase

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Chetan Bhagat

I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back pocket and sat down casually again. "What happened?" I asked idly. "I thought...never mind".She blinked. Ha,gotcha

Charles Lamb

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Charles Lamb

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

Charlaine Harris

I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak. "I wish," I said, "I could save orgasms in a jar for when i need them, because I think I had a few extra." Eric's eyes widened, and all of a sudden he roared with laughter. (Dead to the World)

Charles Baudelaire

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

Charlie Munger

I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine. He said, "What these other accounting firms have done is very unethical. The [tax avoidance scheme] works best if it's not found out [by the IRS], so we only give it to our best clients, not the rest, so it's unlikely to be discovered. So my firm is better than the others." [Laughter] I'm not kidding. And he was a perfectly nice man. People just follow the crowd...Their mind just drifts off in a ghastly way...

Bob Ross

We don't laugh because we feel good; we feel good because we laugh.

Bipasha Basu

I am a positive person. I am not cynical. If you are born in this world, no matter who you are, negative things will happen. If you aren't positive as a person, you'll be very unhappy. It's extremely important to be positive, to laugh, to be happy, to accept life as it comes.

Bill Maher

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

Beth Moore

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

Bernard Manning

I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.

Bob Marley

Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free.

Bill Watterson

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

Bill Watterson

I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

Bobby Jindal

I remember when TV networks believed in the First Amendment. It is a messed up situation when Miley Cyrus gets a laugh, and Phil Robertson gets suspended.

Bobby Jindal

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Benjamin Franklin

Those who laugh often never grow old.

Anton Chekhov

But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

bell hooks

Often in my lectures when I use the phrase “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy” to describe our nation’s political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.

Barry Sonnenfeld

There is something about being a director where, for me personally, I get to . . . it's the closest I'll ever come to being able to be a stand up. And to use my particular sense of humor, and hear people laughing, without me having to stand up in front of an audience and tell jokes.

Barry Sonnenfeld

They want to let the audience figure things out and let the reaction shot get the laugh.

Baltasar Gracian

He who laughs at everything is as big a fool as he who weeps at everything.

Ari Graynor

There is nothing better than a laugh in life. There just isn't.

Desi Arnaz

An audience is so important. I would never have had the guts to dub in that big a laugh.

Desiderius Erasmus

Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.