Famous Quotes & Sayings

Art Buchwald

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

Charles Bukowski

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

Charles Bukowski

my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here

Charles Bukowski

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

Charles Bukowski

And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

Charles Bukowski

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

Charles Bukowski

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

Edward Abbey

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Aristotle

Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health

Earl Nightingale

There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Deepak Chopra

The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world.

Deepak Chopra

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

Dave Pelzer

The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.

David Nicholls

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

Alexander Graham Bell

I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Adolf Hitler

Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

Abraham Lincoln

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

Allen Klein

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

Allen Klein

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

Anthony Jeselnik

The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.'

Andy Dick

I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

Alan Cohen

Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

What a force is laughter.

Alfred Jarry

Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

Alfred Korzybski

One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

C. S. Lewis

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble.

Celia Imrie

I've made great friends through acting. When I'm with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

Catherine Ponder

If people only knew the healing power of laughter and joy, many of our fine doctors would be out of business. Joy is one of nature's greatest medicines. Joy is always healthy. A pleasant state of mind tends to bring abnormal conditions back to normal.

Carroll O'Connor

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

Carrot Top

Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.

Carol Burnett

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

Alain de Botton

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

Al Franken

I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent.