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“If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.”

People Ifs Want Faces Laughing Serious Laughter Your Face Making People Laugh

“A laugh lifestyle is predicated upon our attitude toward the daily stuff of life. When those tasks seem too dull to endure, figure out a way to make them fun; get creative and entertain yourself. If the stuff of life for you right now is not dull and boring but instead painful and overwhelming, find something in the midst of the pain that makes you smile or giggle anyway. There's always something somewhere. . . even if you have to just pretend to laugh until you really do!”

Ifs Way Seems Pain Fun Stuff Attitude Laughing Creative Figures Right Now Laughter Tasks Endure Painful Boring Lifestyle Dull Midst Overwhelming Giggle Make You Smile

Book:The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

Source: The Best Devotions of Marilyn Meberg

“Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.”

Death Laughing Awareness Immortality

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.”

Thinking Said Politics Stars President Laughing Streets Mets Pops Movie Star

Author:Andy Warhol

“It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.”

Way Want Giving Writing Littles Moments Together Courses Interesting Laughing Pieces Mystery Streets Reader Pages Surprise Insight Observation One Way Plot Tenderness Payoff

Author:Christopher Bollen

“I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.”

Feels Mean Rooms Laughing Directors Comfortable Musical Dressings Homecoming Dressing Rooms

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.”

People Want Fun Stuff Laughing Theater Heavy Having Fun Dramatic Making People Laugh Comedic Just Want To Have Fun

Author:Megan Hilty

“I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.”

People Laughing Embarrassed Making People Laugh

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.”

Knows Difficult Laughing Cameras Hardest Things To Do Hardest Thing Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Vera Farmiga

“As you get older, as a comedian, and keep doing it, what you actually start to cherish on stage is not the build-up to the jokes, but how comfortable you can be in the silence and the non-laughing parts, and how long you can take the audience without a laugh to then get a huge reaction.”

Long Silence Audience Laughing Stage Huge Comfortable Jokes Reactions Comedian Cherish

Author:Patton Oswalt

“One thing I've learned from 35 years in the classroom is that people learn best when they are laughing, when they are emotionally hit, that it's both the brain and the heart.”

People Years Heart Brain Laughing One Thing I've Learned Classroom Things I've Learned

Author:Robert Reich

“I love to laugh, I love the joy of life, and I love sharing it.”

Joy Laughing Joy Of Life

Author:Chita Rivera

“What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.”

People Firsts Wells Able Laughing Comedy Make Me Laugh

Author:Nathan Fillion

“I realized, dumb people don't know they're dumb. When people try to make me laugh and they try to be funny, that's when they lose me. I find a lot of comedy in honesty.”

People Knows Trying Loses Laughing Comedy Honesty I Realized Dumb Make Me Laugh Dumb People

Author:Nathan Fillion

“In an odd way, my parents were proud of me. When they saw me do stand-up, I'd see them looking around the room and watch them taking in the people laughing. On some level, that comforted them.”

People Way Parent Levels Rooms Watches Laughing Saws Proud Odd Proud Of Me

Author:Lizz Winstead

“Write a smart joke and people want to talk about it and keep the dialogue going. Also, if you can make someone laugh, it's a pronouncement that they like you on some level.”

People Ifs Want Writing Levels Laughing Like You Smart Jokes Dialogue Make Someone Laugh

Author:Lizz Winstead

“Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.”

Littles Long Art Laughing Bores Dementia Make You Laugh

Book:Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition

Source: Jean Dubuffet 1943-1963: paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition

“I was hoping for 13 episodes that my friends would like. It’s a good lesson, isn’t it? If you do something trying to make your friends laugh and that you can be proud of, you can also be successful.”

Ifs Trying Laughing Successful Proud Lessons My Friends Being Successful Episodes Be Proud Proud Of You

Author:Sam Simon

“There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.”

People Today Lying Laughing Tomorrow Abuse Rounds Abusive

Author:Seneca the Younger

“Do you know why the Lord withheld the sense of humor from women? So that we may love you instead of laugh at you.”

Knows May Lord Laughing Love You Do You Know Sense Of Humor

Author:Mrs. Patrick Campbell

“For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.”

Men Remember Laughing Laughter

Author:Horace

“At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.”

Men World Ends Dies Laughing Goes On Sight Amusement Amused Misanthropic

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.”

Night Father Laughing Ten Stomach Affliction Cheerful Cheerfulness

Book:Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.”

World Real Philosophy School Laughing Shapes Invisible Substance Visible Fabric Portraits Severe Counterfeit Hermes

Book:Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings

Source: Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings

“If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

Ifs Men Way Wells Littles War Hands Games Teach Laughing Fire Careful Caring Careless Live Well Good Humor

Author:Winston Churchill

“Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.”

Men Laughing Bloody Scorn Boldness Resolute Apparitions Macbeth Play Macbeth Key Macbeth Conflict

Author:William Shakespeare

“I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities.”

Men Fun Laughing Failing Possibility Satisfaction

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.”

Heart Company Laughing Humour Pure Righteous Pure Heart Jolly

Book:The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.”

People Needs Enough Shows Attention Laughing Doubt Please No Doubt Approval Show Business Vessel Lure Enough Love

Author:Dennis Miller

“You should often amuse yourself when you take a walk for recreation, in watching and taking note of the attitudes and actions of men as they talk and dispute, or laugh or come to blows with one another... noting these down with rapid strokes, in a little pocket-book which you ought always to carry with you.”

Men Should Littles Book Action Walks Attitude Laughing Ought Notes Blow Pockets Strokes Amusement Disputes Rapids Recreation

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.”

Men Persons Laughing Too Much Share Ignorance News Laughter Witty Wit Conceit Jest

Book:The Works of George Herbert: Poems

Source: The Works of George Herbert: Poems

“The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.”

Giving May Easy Laughing France Far Away Reign Fiddle Always Happy Frenchmen Debonair

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper

“Blest be those feasts, with simple plenty crowned, Where all the ruddy family around Laugh at the jests or pranks that never fail Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale.”

Simple Laughing Failing Eating Tales Pity Plenty Sigh Pranks

Book:The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

Source: The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces

“When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.”

Laughing Hard Work Harder Reminders Work Harder

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.”

Children Facts Kids Grows Pay Laughing Growing Up Dangerous Humour Wind Adults Prison Scared Profession Silly Likes Chosen Funny Kid

Book:Leaving home: a memoir

Source: Leaving home: a memoir

“Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.”

Has Beens Laughing Wise Wine Silent Folly

Author:Homer

“Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.”

People Thinking Use Bigs Today Laughing Four Letters Shooting Shock Panic Shortcuts Four Letter Words

Author:Red Skelton

“I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.”

Mistake Laughing

Author:Jim Carrey

“And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.”

Trying Mean Joy Laughing Perfection Add Make Me Laugh

Book:At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

Source: At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

“Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.”

Earth Lying Laughing Sun Bed Mouths Rose Bleeding Pleading Love Lies

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot Fighting in the captain's tower While calypso singers laugh at them And fishermen hold flowers.”

Fighting Sides Laughing Sea Flower Rivers Praise Fishes Singers Boat Dawn Lakes Fishing Pounds Towers Sail Captains Shouting Fisherman Eliot Nero Neptune Calypso

Author:Bob Dylan

“Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.”

Pleasure Laughing Youth Fairs Blow Realms Rising Vessel Gallant Helm Gilded Azure Zephyr

Author:Thomas Gray

“He is not always at ease who laughs.”

Laughing Laughter Ease

Author:Dante Alighieri

“We weep and laugh, as we see others do.”

Laughing Weeping

Book:The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon

Source: The poetical works of ... Wentworth Dillon, earl of Roscommon

“Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh”

Men Nations Ability Laughing Extraordinary Straightforward

Author:Michael Palin

“I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.”

Persons Facts Darkness Laughing Laughter Optimistic Nervous Day To Day Facts Of Life Pessimistic Trenches

Author:Alain de Botton

“All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.”

Ifs World Mind Character Faces Laughing Humour Habit

Author:Jimmy Durante

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