A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

— Anonymous

I never care if the audience groans.

— Jim Norton

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

— William Shakespeare

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

— Anonymous

“Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to talk in…

— Jane Austen

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“I have not art to reckon my groans, but that I love thee best, oh, most best, believe it.”

— William Shakespeare

“Fuck," he groans. "This is… Tru... you feel... fuccckk.”

— Samantha Towle

Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth

— William Shakespeare

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

— Billy Sunday

“John MacKechnie’s Gaelic Without Groans”

— Gladys Mitchell

“se there was a matter of half a ream of brown paper stuck upon me, from first to last. As I laid all of…

— Charles Dickens

“I don’t understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes,” Mum groans. “It’s a horrible name.” “We’ll make it beautiful, you’ll see.…

— Clémentine Beauvais

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps.

— Phil LaMarr