Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peta Wilson

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

Quintilian

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

Quincy Jones

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

Pliny the Elder

To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

Victor Borge

Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Robert Benchley

All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.

Rita Mae Brown

I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.

Rick Moody

God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

Robert McKee

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Robert McKee

Night after night, through years of performing and directing, I've stood in awe of the audience, of its capacity for response. As if by magic, masks fall away, faces become vulnerable, receptive. Filmgoers do not defend their emotions, rather they open to the storyteller in ways even their lovers never know, welcoming laughter, tears, terror, rage, compassion, passion, love, hate--the ritual often exhausts them.

Walt Whitman

Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

Saul Alinsky

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

Roger Ebert

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

Rod Parsley

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Robin McKinley

Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.

Robert Plant

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Robert Plant

Does anyone remember laughter?

Sarah MacLean

She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

Samuel Johnson

The size of a man's understanding can be justly measured by his mirth.

Roald Dahl

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

Richard Pryor

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

Tupac Shakur

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter.

Tori Amos

There are quite a few very funny people in my life. You know those people who don't mean to be funny, they just come out with these zingers that just make you howl with laughter. Usually you find these people in the road crew. A good crew is a key to a healthy funny bone.

Robin Wasserman

Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.

Robin Williams

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

Robin Williams

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter.

Trenton Lee Stewart

What is life without laughter?

Veronica Roth

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

Samuel Johnson

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Ryan Adams

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other.