Laugh Quotations | Page 2

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

To say that a humorist exaggerates to get big laughs, I don't see how that's big news.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

I just think that the people who say: 'That's not true' when someone tells a story at dinner are the people who didn't get any laughs when they told their story.