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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.
If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we'll just go back to one.
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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.
And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.
Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.
Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.
Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.
It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.
my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
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.
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
A church is in a bad way when it banishes laughter from the sanctuary and leaves it to the cabaret, the nightclub and the toastmasters.
Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!
Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!
Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.
The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.
We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life
Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.
Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.
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.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.
Today, in my career, I'm doing what I love to do. And that is, do things for the fun - do comedy. It's a pleasure to go for the laughter.
I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.
Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!
An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?
I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.
One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.
In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.
After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.
there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.
The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.
I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.