“Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.” PeopleHappensKidsWantedClassLaughingTroubleHonestlyMaking People Laugh Author:Eric Ladin
“I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.” NightMorningLaughingTroubleConditionsMadnessMadMoodObsessionLivelyMadmenGood Mood Author:Emile M. Cioran
“The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the yardarm is splintered. He calls on those who hear nothing and he struggles in the midst of the whirling waters. The god laughs at the hot-headed man, seeing him, who boasted that this would never happen, exhausted by distress without remedy and unable to surmount the cresting wave. He wrecks the happiness of his earlier life on the reef of Justice, and he perishes unwept, unseen.” MenHappensForceWaterJusticeLaughingStruggleSeeingTroubleHe ManHotWaveStrikesMidstRemedySailDistressExhaustedUnseenWrecksReefsHot Headed Author:Aeschylus
“They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty. Or, they tell us, they are rough-and-ready proles, laughing along with us at the efforts of our social "betters" to reform and improve us. That they are often, in fact, people of privilege doing their utmost to boost the fortunes of a political party that is the traditional tool of the privileged is a contradiction that does not trouble them.” PeopleDoeRealFactsPoliticalSocialPartyEffortLaughingTroubleReadyToolsFortunePrivilegeTraditionalReformMannersContradictionRoughDisgustingPrivilegedPolitical PartiesBoostGazing Author:Thomas Frank
“I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.” MenWorldLaughingTroubleThis WorldGloryMen And WomenTornLiving On Author:Carl Sandburg
“People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!” PeopleWould BeLaughingTroubleRacist Author:Bobby Jindal
“She wasn't that tough on me, but I think she was often a little frightened - being a single parent. So it begets this quality of desired absoluteness that doesn't really exist. My sister could crack her up. She'd be getting into trouble and put the Steve Martin arrow through her head and mom would start to laugh. I didn't have the same sort of wiliness.” ThinkingLittlesParentQualityLaughingTroubleMomToughCracksFrightenedMy SisterArrowsBegetsSingle ParentBeing A Single Parent Author:Ashley Judd
“I used humor to avoid being picked on as a kid. Or I would try and make my parents laugh, so I wouldn't get in trouble. But as a kid, I would watch Flip Wilson and I would memorize his whole routine, listen to Bill Cosby's records constantly, Steve Martin, Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball. I just drank that stuff up and loved it.” TryingWholeKidsUsedStuffParentWatchesLaughingRecordsTroubleBallsBillsRoutineDrankFlipWilsonCarols Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“I was always getting in trouble because I was the class clown but I always made teacher laugh. I remember I thought I was going to fail that class but I ended up passing it and I really think it was only because I was good entertainment for her.” ThinkingMadeRememberClassLaughingTeacherFailingTroubleEntertainmentPassingPassingsClownPassing It Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.” PeopleMeanImportantProblemHandsGamesSocialLaughingTroubleSeriousJokesEndureIntenseNormGrievance Author:Marshall McLuhan
“If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.” IfsLifeHumorGrowsLaughingTroublePositiveHealthLaughterAging Author:E. W. Howe
“With all the trouble black people have, they try to forget on weekends. You've got to be good to make them laugh.” PeopleTryingBlackForgetLaughingTroubleBe GoodBlack PeopleWeekend Author:Flip Wilson
“Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.” ClassLaughingTroubleClown Author:R. L. Stine
“When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.” MenLosesLossLaughingTroubleForgivingLost FriendshipMany FriendsPrerogativeFunny FriendNever Forgive Author:Francis Bacon