Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lithgow

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

John Kufuor

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

Jimmy Durante

It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

Jimmy Buffett

If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

Jimmy Buffett

If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

George Lopez

If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives.

Judith McNaught

Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter.

Joseph Lelyveld

His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.

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.

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.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

Liz Carpenter

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

Lisa Vanderpump

Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all!

Lloyd Jones

I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

Louise Rennison

Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

Lord Byron

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

Lord Byron

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

Lord Byron

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Lord Byron

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Lord Chesterfield

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Lord Chesterfield

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Lord Chesterfield

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The highest state is laughter.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Laughter is the language of the heart

Mahatma Gandhi

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Gail Carson Levine

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

Frida Kahlo

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

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.

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.