195 quotes found
“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.”
“I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.”
“If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.”
“To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.”
“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
“Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.”
“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”
“Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.”
“In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.”
“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
“Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.”
“When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed se...”
“Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.”
“I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.”
“He laughs best who laughs last.”
“To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.”
“I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.”
“The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.”
“As the crackling of thorns under a pot so is the laughter of a fool.”
“Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.”
