Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
Mahatma Ghandi
And we should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced at least once: And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.
Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.
Oscar Wilde
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
Chuck Palahniuk
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Martin Luther King Jr.
People show their character by what they laugh at.
German Proverb
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
Frank Tyger
If you can't laugh at yourself, then who can you laugh at?
Tiger Woods
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join.
Agnes Repplier
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
Edgar Watson Howe
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
C. S. Lewis
The only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it. If you can't top it, laugh at it. If you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.
J. Russell Lynes
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
Charles Reade
It's pretty cool. After what we've been through, you just have to laugh at that.
Justin Wernke
It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing.
Jack Handey
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
Where strained, sardonic smiles are glozing still, And grief is forced to laugh against her will.
Henry Wotton, Sr.
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Katherine Mansfield
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Robert A. Heinlein
They were always funny, ... She could always make me laugh.
Amy Wilson
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Lenny Bruce
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!
Luigi Pirandello
We just like to get together and have a laugh!
Lori Mittereder
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
W. H. Auden
It's when you cry just a little, but you laugh in the middle that you've made it.
Jason Mraz
There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
Marlene Dietrich
I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep.
P.a. Caron De Beaumarchais
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
Sir John Powell
I know the one thing she'd want us to be doing is laughing.
Bob Garrison
And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.
George Villiers
That red hair of hers was a warning signal. To this day I laugh at how she beat those boys.
Bridget Idtensohn
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
It'll be one of those things, ... where you don't know if you're crying because you're laughing so hard or if, doggone it, Reggie, you just mean so much to us. Life is not the same without you.
Sara White
He (Rowe) was a good guy. He could always make you laugh no matter what mood you were in.
Alisha Lonsdale
People sometimes divide others into those you laugh at and those you laugh with. The young Auden was someone you could laugh-at-with.
Stephen Spender
Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard.
Steve Carell
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
William Rotsler
I knew I hit the shot perfect. And then to hit the hole and go into the water, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Obviously, it's a crazy game.
Charles Howell Iii
I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.
Jane Goodall
Everybody really needs to laugh, ... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.
Paul Rodriguez
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Stephen Leacock
And then adds with a laugh, ''but in retrospect I think he may have been more sophisticated than we were.
Dave Van Ronk
For helping me laugh more.
Toxic Audio
Sherry's presence was known. She was always laughing and had a positive attitude. Everybody liked being around her.
Julie Helin
Laughing deeply is living deeply.
Milan Kundera
If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.
Sue Johanson
Sometimes you can hear the bell ring or someone is laughing when you are recording. I once plugged in my headphones and there was no audio.
Carlos Mendez
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett
When you go through them, you find out the true meaning of people. It's easy when things are going good. It's very easy. You can walk around laughing.
Joe Mcewing
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people.
Jack Handy
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
Kelvin Throop III
She is strong in the floor exercise and the vault. She is always laughing and cracking jokes.
Jennifer Barrett
In My Life really offers people a chance to laugh and to cry…and it's better than Cats .
David Turner
There's a lot of veteran guys in the NHL laughing, right now.
Darcy Tucker
The community was thrilled about the event. There were Muslims, Christians and Jews in the audience all laughing together.
Carol Kline
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
Dame Edna Everage
One of my granddaughters came to me afterwards with a suggestion. She said 'Grandma, we should try to do this every week.' That made me groan a little but I also had to laugh.
Joy Larson
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
Jane Austen
Making people laugh never felt so good.
Dave Price
When we saw the huge impacts, we all started laughing and talking excitedly.
Michael Zolensky
I explained this goes back centuries as an old-time Islamic symbol, ... I told them we'd be a laughing stock if we did this.
Tom Burnett
For years, no one talked about it. That's something you never wanted to talk about again, certainly not laugh about it.
Becky Garland
She was a feisty woman. She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.
Carol Ann Marsh
She was always outgoing, and she had a very bright personality. You could always hear her laughing.
Stephanie Mcgilvrey
I thought it was really fun to laugh about it - it kind of just melted away remaining feelings in laughter. It gave us a little closure.
Teresa Garland
Have a laugh and free the weed.
Peter Matthews
It will be fun, but more fun if we had Earl, ... If Earl was here, he would make everybody laugh.
Tony Oliva
We're having a 20-year-old sitting next to a 70-year-old laughing at the same stuff.
Scott Viets
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
That's almost guaranteed to get a laugh.
Steve Byrne
Everybody wants to be liked, fit in and make people laugh. I think we're not that different.
Amanda Bynes
Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
H. L. Mencken
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. . . . I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Mary Pickford
It was so wet that we laughed. And that's what we've been doing ever since: laughing.
Sandra Williams
I feel like laughing, like crying. It was my goal.
Janica Kostelic
He always had a comeback or a witticism for everything. He loved to laugh and was a very loyal friend.
Kathryn Jensen
You laugh it off, you get upset for a little while, you're human and you let it go.
Jennifer Lopez
One of a dying breed. If I could have another two or three of him right now, we'd be laughing.
Bob Lenarduzzi
My Republican friends are laughing at us because of the indecision we're going through, ... Inside Politics.
Thomas Menino
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek
If you watch a sitcom at home alone, the chances of you laughing out loud at something are less than if you are watching it with five friends.
Tim Spengler
If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.
Clarence Darrow
You can laugh, but I will get the last laugh.
Alvin Starks
Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.
Konrad Lorenz
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, / Like a child at play.
Johnny Mercer
Everybody was having so much fun and laughing. It's great playing in this atmosphere - at the end having all black and gold shirts here and getting the red out of here.
Jody Blount
We want to be funny. We want to make people laugh. We'll do whatever it takes.
Colin Mochrie
He must not laugh at his own wheeze: A snuff box has no right to sneeze.
Keith Preston
He [Brandariz] was an awesome kid. He and Nico could make you laugh over anything. It just sucks how he's gone.
Chris Shaffer
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave for life.
Bette Midler
We're going to give something back. We're going to make people laugh, make them clap, and get emotional, and I think that's cool.
Paul Goyette
Even though we went hard early I was laughing to myself when I was able to go so slow down the back straight.
Natalie Rasmussen
SNL. There was always stuff firing back and forth. We were laughing all the time. It was just constant funny stuff.
Lou Blue Marini
I saw something in their interactions, how much fun they have together. ... My hope was that if I had fun with it, other people would, and that if my grandparents could make me laugh, they could make other people laugh.
Mike Potter
I laugh more at practice than anywhere else. It's just like hanging out with our friends. We talk to them about everything from boyfriends to gossip.
Katie Griswold
I hope I do (laugh some day) but right now I can't. It was a pretty important game to give the bullpen a rest. I've got to brush this one off, put it behind you.
Dustin Mcgowan
The beast that is always hungry, wanting more coke and laughing at my attempts to get clean and sober.
Dwight Gooden
I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!
Jesse Mccartney
It is good to laugh at the reporters. You definitely don't know everything. I think it's time you gives us some credit.
Kenyatta Walker
We are coming to Israel to entertain and laugh. We have fun at our shows. We get up to all sorts of antics, and like to create a party atmosphere.
David Ritchie
It felt good to laugh and smile again.
Karen Clark
He's fun. He keeps me laughing, and it seems like he's going to keep everyone entertained this year, too.
Angie Watson
It's kind of cathartic to laugh about the city's plight.
Keith Harris
We found an energy that a lot of people can appeal to, and if you don't hate it, you can laugh at it.
Ben Curtis
'Jaws' is a classic. It's on TV often, so really, every day it's getting a new audience. When you watch people arrive back in after they experience it, and they're screaming and laughing, you see it has this appeal that still holds.
Tom Schroder
One said, 'I'm going to get rich!' That made me laugh.
Blake Bradley
If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.
Rachel Mcadams
We laugh really hard when we go out. We'll have a glass of wine, or we'll go to a club and dance. I'm not sitting around like a hermit; I'm enjoying my life!
Mary J. Blige
Some men talk sensibly and act foolishly, some talk foolishly and act sensibly; the first laugh at the last, the last cheat the first.
Richard Fulke Greville
Danny is standing side-by-side with his great friend, Jim Morrison, and the two of them will now be laughing together into eternity.
Ray Manzarek
I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.
Rob Schneider
It's really important that we get out there and we laugh. We're not going to be overly sappy.
Lorne Michaels
We wanted to give (the audience) something they would laugh to and remember. It's just a fun night at the theater.
Bob Foster
When it's all through after a few days, people are going to laugh at the media for their overreaction.
Alan K. Simpson
If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
You have to have a sense of humor about yourself and laugh at yourself in the company of those you lead.
Dale Sanders
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean De La Bruyere
The mood of the people now is different. The people will laugh now, and that is what the authorities are most afraid of.
Aleksandr Milinkevich
Laugh! I thought I should 'ave died, / Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road.
Albert Chevalier
I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupies is pathological.
John Fahey
I couldn't even begin to tell you the fears [and] the anxieties I had. The only way I could cover it up was to laugh or eat.
Sarah Ferguson
Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.
Bo Oshoniyi
We were laughing and crying in disbelief.
Shari Boyd
The first couple of episodes, there are tapes and tapes of us laughing because we couldn't get the line down.
Josh Cincinnati
I said to myself, ?how can this possibly happen?? I had just gone through all the chemotherapy and now, I have cervical cancer. I guess I just have to laugh about it; because if not, it is just too much for me to handle.
Dorothy Moore
One of those things we'll be able to laugh about in 20 years.
Shannon Kleibrink
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, sinners are much more fun.
Billy Joel
You could be in the worst mood ever and all you had to do was hear Kirby laugh or see his smile and he could bring you back.
Cal Ripken Jr
After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.
Matthew Perry
It has not been an easy name, yet it has brought me many a laugh.
Sister Parish
When I am happy I feel like crying, but when I am sad I don't feel like laughing. I think it is better to be happy; then you get two feelings for the price of one.
Lily Tomlin
I'd heard that you can make people laugh in opera.
Garry Marshall
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
Instantly, there was a click. He's the best straight man. There was not a lot of editing or a laugh track, so we would either get laughs or you would hear the air conditioner.
Tim Conway
When people say that I'm the frontrunner, I laugh. I'm nominated with Glenn Close - like I've got a shot.
Mariska Hargitay
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane Austen
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
Anna Letitia Barbauld
To Err is human; to refrain from laughing, humane.
Lane Olinghouse
It was funny to me. I just kept laughing. They thought they were going to beat us. I don't know what they were thinking.
Alex Montgomery
I started laughing and said 'Guys, I think (Latin jazz) is over the hump,'.
Poncho Sanchez
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Gustave Flaubert
She's always up for a good joke. She can always make everyone laugh and smile.
Maria Brennan
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.
Roald Dahl
He's cooled down a little bit. After he gets mad, he laughs it off. Then we all start laughing. And then we know we have to get serious.
Jessica Canady
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana
It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh
I'm a visionary. And I envisioned all of this. The kids laugh, but I envisioned this a long time ago.
Dave Vandiver
Some of the kids will raise money to go on the trips. We laugh because they work so hard to raise money to go work.
Kristy Baker
I use that as an excuse sometimes when people laugh at me. I say I'm a lefty, leave me alone.
Matt Schrantz
Gina doesn't know how to laugh at herself. She has a problem feeling comfortable and confident [and] making any pose stick.
Janice Dickinson
Whatever kind of movie it is, you're going to be more into it when you care more about the drama, or you'll have a better laugh if you feel like you know the people better.
Luke Wilson
Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... People need to laugh.
Carl Reiner
You can't do anything but laugh.
Caren Brady
We laugh and joke and kid around. We have a good time.
Isabella Kymer
We are all comfortable in each other's presence and there's a lot of laughing and joking.
Lee Westwood
George (Lucas) came up to me and said, 'You gave me the biggest laugh. You died brilliantly', and funnily enough everybody says the same.
Michael Sheard
Absolutely. You're not laughing at them. You're really laughing with them. There are a lot of jokes in this movie, and they're in on them all.
Peter Farrelly
At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at them.
Gavin de Becker
I like Rupert, I get on with Rupert, we are friends and when we are on set together we have a good laugh.
Dan Radcliffe
All we kept hearing was the kids screaming and laughing. You can't make this stuff up.
Dan Kleinman
It's rare to read a half-hour script that actually makes you laugh.
Jane Curtin
Those prizes in Cracker Jacks are a joke. I once got a magnifying glass. It was so poorly made, ants were laughing at it.
Scott Roeben
You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation.
Kenyan Proverb
That actually encourages us to feel that we are on the right track, that we are doing something different, so it's encouraging when they laugh at the wrong places, or don't laugh at all sometimes.
Fred Savage
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Cullen Hightower
Paul would be laughing with extras and saying, 'Yes, and then we could do that,' and, 'Let's try this,' and I'm like, 'OK, but we've got to go!'
Aidan Quinn
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,At which the audience never fail to laugh?
Aristophanes
I always wanted attention, and I realized I could make people laugh.
Lusia Strus
You make me laugh so hard that I actually pee in my knickers.
Rachel Weisz
We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.
James Grippando
A good teammate and could always make you laugh, even something ain't going right.
John Kehoe
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