Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Caine

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Merrie Spaeth

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Merlin Olsen

The focus of my life begins at home with family, loved ones and friends. I want to use my resources to create a secure environment that fosters love, learning, laughter and mutual success. I will protect and value integrity. I will admit and quickly correct my mistakes. I will be a self-starter. I will be a caring person. I will be a good listener with an open mind. I will continue to grow and learn. I will facilitate and celebrate the success of others.

Merle Haggard

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.

Mason Cooley

Envy awakens at the sound of a distant laugh.

Mason Cooley

Laughter scares off lust.

Mason Cooley

Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

Mason Cooley

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

Mason Cooley

Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

Mary Karr

Gary Shteyngart has written a memoir for the ages. I spat laughter on the first page and closed the last with wet eyes. Un-put-down-able in the day and a half I spent reading it, Little Failure is a window into immigrant agony and ambition, Jewish angst, and anybody's desperate need for a tribe. Readers who've fallen for Shteyngart's antics on the page will relish the trademark humor. But here it's laden and leavened with a deep, consequential, psychological journey. Brave and unflinching, Little Failure is his best book to date

Mary Astor

the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

Michael Crawford

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.

Mark Driscoll

While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked by conflict and coldness. When one spouse is friendly and the other is unfriendly, the marriage is marked by selfishness and sadness. But when both spouses each make a deep, heartfelt covenant with God to continually seek to become a better friend, increasing love and laughter mark the marriage.

Mark Driscoll

You have to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you'll waste all that great material.

Marie Dressler

I was born serious and I have earned my bread making other people laugh.

Marie Corelli

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Marie Lu

Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always. "I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?

Marge Piercy

Shared laughter is erotic too.

Ted Cruz

I treat him [Donald Trump] as an entertainer. I laugh it off. It's like going to the circus and seeing the acrobats and the dancing bears. He's willing to say things that are patently false.

Theodore Zeldin

The British have turned their sense of humour into a national virtue. It is odd, because through much of history, humour has been considered cheap, and laughter something for the lower orders. But British aristocrats didn't care a damn about what people thought of them, so they made humour acceptable.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition.

Theodore Hesburgh

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

Theodore Bikel

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

Theodor Herzl

Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.'

Margaret Mead

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

Kin Hubbard

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

Michael Bolton

I'm pretty irreverent. There is a lot of need to find humour in life. Although I'd never be as disrespectful to laugh at someone's expense.

Melissa Rauch

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

Michael Ondaatje

she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.

It has head-to-toe benefits. If you laugh 15 minutes a day, you'll be 4 pounds lighter by next year.

Mel Stottlemyre

I'm over that. It did for a while. I laugh at that, too.

Pat Morita

I had to find things to laugh at.

John Cleese

I had not seen it for a long time and was suddenly embarrassed to find that I was laughing more than anyone.