Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Alan Ayckbourn

What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.

Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

Alan Alda

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Alan Alda

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!

Chinua Achebe

Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.

Chester A. Arthur

Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: soap, in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

David Whitehouse

Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

William Shakespeare

Talkers are no good doers.

William Shakespeare

Every good servant does not all commands.

William Shakespeare

I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

William Shakespeare

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

Alan Jay Lerner

All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.

Alan Jay Lerner

Men die but an idea does not.

Alan Greenspan

We as central bankers need not be concerned if a collapsing financial asset bubble does not threaten to impair the real economy, its production, jobs and price stability.

Alan Chadwick

The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.

Camille Paglia

Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability.

Carl Jung

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

Carl Sagan

We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

Carl Sagan

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

Carl Sagan

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

Carl Sagan

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

Carl Sagan

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

Carl Sagan

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

Carl Sagan

If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.