Laughing Quotes · Page 103

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

— Maureen Howard

If the Martians ever find out how human beings think, they'll kill themselves laughing.

— Albert Ellis

The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed

— William Blake

she would die as she had lived, with an axe in her hand and a laugh upon her lips.

— George R. R. Martin

Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Lord Chesterfield

They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.

— Lawrence Durrell

I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.

— Will Rogers

Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only…

— Staceyann Chin

The people who laugh and smile the most are the ones in the most pain. Laughing and smiling isn't just the best…

— Nishan Panwar

Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly…

— Chelsea Handler

The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to…

— W. C. Fields

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot…

— Adam Sandler

Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what…

— Steve Martin

Celia laughs and a curl of her hair falls across her cheek. Marco tentatively moves to brush it off her face, but…

— Erin Morgenstern

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier…

— Maya Angelou

I really loved working on comedy. Most of my roles have been very dramatic and involved lots of emotional work and crying…

— Chloe Noelle

Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so…

— Louisa May Alcott

“The Major would be laughing at me,’ replies Alec, smiling. ‘But no, I would be wanting no war for him. It is…

— D.E. Stevenson

I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's…

— Greg Proops

When I started it still wasn't okay to be this age and still make this kind of music. And believe me, I…

— Pat Benatar

The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing…

— Nikolai Gogol

I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've…

— Kris Kristofferson

I'm the biggest proponent of test screenings now. There's two ways to face test screenings. For dramas, I don't know if I…

— Paul Feig

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...

— Robert Frost

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

— Edward Abbey

Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a…

— Demetri Martin

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it

— Tom Berenger

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

— Linda Lael Miller

I don't want you leaving laughing, I want to leave you shaking. That to me is true horror.

— Tony Todd

And that's the way I have always lived, for the laughs – today. N-O-W. No Other Way.

— Mickey Rooney

To laugh, to lie, to flatter, to face: Four ways in court to win man's grace.

— Roger Ascham

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

— John Calvin

In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should.

— Robert Dhery

My lover asks me: “What is the difference between me and the sky?” The difference, my love, Is that when you laugh,…

— Nizar Qabbani

I want to sit with my legs wide open and laugh so loud that the whole damn restaurant turns and looks at…

— Paula Cole

And I agreed, but still, she owed us an explanation. If she was up there, down there, out there, somewhere, maybe she…

— John Green

When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again.

— Marilyn Monroe

The pre-shoot days are so relaxed and fun and the writers are laughing. I love the rehearsal process.

— Allison Janney