Laughing Quote by Peter Cook Download Open image “One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.” — Peter Cook ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Laughing Way
One thing a person won't do when he's laughing is try to beat you up. — Leslie Nielsen Copy Share Image
I contend that not only can you laugh at adversity, but it is essential to do so if you are to deal with setbacks… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at — Lyn Karol Copy Share Image
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
Sometimes laughing isn't something you do for fun. Sometimes it's a relief when you have nowhere to run. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it. — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the… — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
“1. Total domination of the world by 1958. 2. Domination of the astral spheres quite soon too. 3. The finding of lovely ladies for Spotty Muldoon within the foreseeable future. 4. GETTING A NUCLEAR ARM to deter with. 5. The bodily removal from this planet of C. P. Snow and Alan Freeman and their replacement with fine TREES. 6. Stopping… — Peter Cook Copy Share
You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it. — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there. — Peter Cook Copy Share Image
Laughing, laughing, laughing, laughing! It is the jester! A voice from the Void, to cheer poor Cicero! I accept your gift, dearest Night Mother.… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and LEAN into the curves, etc), and used a small circular needle (socks and mittens) in order to keep the knitting in her pocket until they were under way; then she leaned back slightly so Gaffer couldn't… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
We do not claim that punning is legitimate wit. Wit consists in combination of ideas, punning in combination of words only. We wonder at… — Harriet Hosmer Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
“I hate the way you talk to me And the way you cut your hair I hate the way you drive my car I hate it when you stare I hate your big dumb combat boots And the way you read my mind I hate you so much, that it makes me sick And even makes me rhyme I hate… — David Levithan Copy Share
The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share
The major caveat in all of comedy is that it's all instinctive. There's no true criteria. There is no right or wrong. Ultimately, often… — Larry Charles Copy Share Image
In theater, one of the biggest problems when you're rehearsing comedy over and over again is that you stop laughing at each other. — Lauren Ashley Carter Copy Share Image