Laughable Quotes

• The man of understanding finds everything laughable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Understanding, He Man

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• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  Terrence Malick

  Struggle, People, Important

  "Terrence Malick Punched Out A Producer & 10 Other Things We Learned About ‘Badlands’" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. June 03, 2011.

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• The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Humble, Vanity

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• The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave.

  Tamara Mellon

  Hurt, Believe, People

  "Jimmy Choo's Tamara Mellon" by Nancy Hass, www.elle.com. October 14, 2009.

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• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  Laughing, Breathe

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• The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia.

  Samuel West

  Clever, Russia, Ideas

  "Best of the West". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

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• The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals

  James Thurber

  Dog, Fun, Animal

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.957, Library of America

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• No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Laughter, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Jesus, Election, Christ

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• I will rather kill myself than commit suicide.

  Patience Jonathan

  Suicide, Commit, Nigeria

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• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Humor, Character

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• I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

  Linda Gray

  Humor, Careers, Sense Of Humor

  Interview with Paul Bocchini, www.ultimatedallas.com.

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• What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

  Philip Kaufman

  Interesting, Quality, Seems

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The worth of a child born and bred in Nigeria cannot be compared to that in the United States.

  Yakubu Gowon

  Children, Usa, United States

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• School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  School, Rich, Poor

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• I founded this school for the masses.

  Atiku Abubakar

  School, Mass, Nigeria

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• Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

  Charles Kennedy

  Taken, Serious, Aspect

  Charles Kennedy (2000). “The future of politics”

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• I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  Real, Ties, Drs

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• A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

  Herman Melville

  Happiness, Laughter, Laughing

  "The Complete Works of Herman Melville".

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• Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Enemy, World

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• Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Touching, Quality

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

  Plato

  Opposites, Serious Things, Understood

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.172, Cosimo, Inc.

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• How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Ironic, Joking Around, Gestures

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• I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.

  Voltaire

  Health, Doctors, Medicine

  Letter to Charles Feriol 6 November (1767)

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• Lying contains the same hostile elements as a practical joke in that the 'victim' ends up looking foolish in his own eyes and laughable in everyone else's.

  Sue Grafton

  Lying, Eye, Elements

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.76, Macmillan

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