Laughing Quotes - page 2

Realizing that life is precious the natural tendency is to trample on it, like laughing at a funeral. (Lester Bangs)
Laughing and crying, you know it's the same release. View quote
Joni Mitchell
Then I became an altar boy because of the solemn face, but I got thrown out at fourteen for laughing, because the priest used to mumble everything except the church plate takings. View quote
Elvis Costello
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen. View quote
Timothy Leary
I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards ... and here was an almond tree in bloom before me: I must reach out and cut a flowering branch. For, by believing passionately in something which still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired, whatever we have not irrigated with our blood to such a degree that it becomes strong enough to stride across the somber threshold of nonexistence. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
If evolution was worth its salt, it should've evolved something better than 'survival of the fittest.' I think a better idea would be 'survival of the wittiest.' At least, that way, creatures that didn't survive could've died laughing. View quote
Lily Tomlin
No one's laughing at God - We're all laughing with God. View quote
Regina Spektor
Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees. View quote
Camille Paglia
It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing. View quote
Eleanor Farjeon
I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off. View quote
Bruce Willis
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. (Chuck Palahniuk)
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. View quote
Oscar Wilde
People say I'm the life of the party 'Cause I tell a joke or two. Although I might be laughing loud and hearty, Deep inside I'm blue. So take a good look at my face. You know my smile looks out of place. If you look closer, it's easy to trace The tracks of my tears. View quote
Smokey Robinson
And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. View quote
Thomas Gray
The Tibetan missionaries in their mood of bright confidence disconcerted the imperial governments by laughing the new movement into frustration. For a sham faith cannot stand ridicule. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone Can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here. View quote
Phil Ochs
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. View quote
John Steinbeck
Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb. View quote
William Butler Yeats
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric. View quote
Victor Hugo
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then for I have heard my daughter say she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing. (William Shakespeare)
... the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying. View quote
Rohinton Mistry
Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? View quote
Emily Brontë
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness. View quote
Markus Zusak
Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard. View quote
Meg Cabot