Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Bergson

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

Henri Bergson

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

Henri Bergson

Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.

Henri Bergson

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Henri Bergson

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson

There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.

Cassandra Clare

Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must be more amusing than I thought. Which would make me very amusing indeed.

Cassandra Clare

There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.

Cassandra Clare

It was Eric's voice not Simon's, on the recorded message. “Ladies, ladies ” he said. Though it was the millionth time she’d heard the recording, Clary couldn't help rolling her eyes. “If you've reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please don’t fight among yourselves. There’s always enough Simon to go around.” There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then the long sound of the beep.

Charlie Chaplin

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

James Boswell

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Janet Fitch

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

Ernst Mach

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter. But matter is an abstraction of exactly the same kind, just as good and just as bad as it is. We know as much about the soul as we do of matter.

Ernest Dowson

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

Cassandra Clare

I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him." Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane." "Please, call me Magnus." "I shall!

Muriel Spark

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

Gunter Grass

On sorrow floats laughter.

Jim Butcher

As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a nursery tale?""I wouldn't say they handed me my ass," I said.Bob was nearly strangling on his laughter, and given that he had no lungs it seemed gratuitous somehow. "That's because you can't see yourself," he choked out. "Your nose is all swollen up and you've got two black eyes. You look like a raccoon. Holding a dislocated ass.

Jim Butcher

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

Jim Butcher

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Jim Butcher

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

Jim Butcher

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

James Earl Jones

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

Kristin Chenoweth

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

Klaus Kinski

I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

Moliere

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

Molly Ivins

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Milton Berle

Laughter is the best medicine in the world.

Ken Wilber

AQAL is a map of samsara, a map of the prison, but if you gonna make a prison brake,you need a good map. (laughter)

Kelly Stables

I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.

Katherine Mansfield

The fields are snowbound no longer; There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green. The snow has been caught up into the sky- So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold. Now the sun walks in the forest, He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers; They shiver, and wake from slumber. Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls. Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears.... A wind dances over the fields. Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter, Yet the little blue lakes tremble And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.

Kate Clinton

In this political climate, people are so shut down to other ideas - I call it a hardening of the categories - that if you can get them to open up and laugh, there is a possibility of improvement, and a possibility of change. I think humor sneaks up on people, and before you know it, you're laughing at something you might not agree with.

Kate Clinton

Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart.