Laughter Quotes - page 28

It's different now, it's different now. Now I can speak the truth. I can tell you that the one thing I really, really couldn't bear when I was an MP were my constituents. [laughter] Let's face it: the people have contempt for the politicans; it is as nothing to the contempt we have for you. [laughter] All over this country, there are politicians on their way to the Labour Party conference, coming away from the LibDem one, getting ready to go to the Conservative one, thinking "God, at last he's said it. He's said what we all feel, that happiness is the constituency in the rear-view mirror." (Gyles Brandreth)
to a young woman suing a former friend for a broken toilet: The toilet broke while she was using it - that doesn't mean that she broke it, and it doesn't mean that she's responsible for it! Toilets break - I had one just break in my apartment last week! Cost me $650 to put in a new toilet! You think I went around to try to find the last person who sat on it? [audience breaks into laughter] Don't be STUPID! GROW UP! That's all. View quote
Judith Sheindlin
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused. View quote
Gilda Radner
The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
Shared laughter is erotic too. View quote
Marge Piercy
I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it. View quote
Gabriel Iglesias
One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. Another secret is that laughter is carbonated holiness. View quote
Anne Lamott
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days. View quote
Sue Monk Kidd
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision. I accuse the Christian god of murder by allowing the Holocaust to take place -- not to mention the "ethnic cleansing" presently being performed by Christians in our world -- and I condemn and vilify this mythical deity for encouraging racial prejudice and commanding the degradation of women. (James Randi)
You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. View quote
John Irving
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again. View quote
Alan Alda
With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes. View quote
Steve Coogan
I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. View quote
Al Franken
There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. View quote
William McIlvanney
The task which lies ahead is adventure as well as duty, and I am anxious to get at it. I feel better in mind and body than I have for ten years and am quite certain I can meet the foe confident and unafraid...Truly, we have shared to the full life, love, and laughter. Comforted in the knowledge that your thought and prayer go with us every minute, and sure that your faith and courage will never falter, no matter the outcome, I bid you au revoir. View quote
Nile Kinnick
Sometimes tears make more good than laughter. View quote
Pedro Muñoz Seca
Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)
It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... [false laughter]... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously. View quote
Maria Bamford