"He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to laugh at his jokes the way I used to."
Beth Henley
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Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.
ABBY WAMBACH I try not to laugh at my own jokes, but we all know I'm hilarious.
ANONYMOUS Johnny Carson started the jokes about me and Marlin in his monologues.
JIM FOWLER Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh?
ARISTOPHANES Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.
CRISS JAMI We laugh if its real. Its a joke if isn't real. I don't laugh much in jokes, because I know they are...
EPHDAN Jokes that make other people laugh at the expense of others are not jokes. They're participated calu...
JOHN B. BEJO Always laugh heartily at the jokes your boss tells, it maybe a loyalty test.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm...
JACK WHITEHALL Small things make me happy, and I laugh out loud on the silliest of jokes!
DIVYANKA TRIPATHI The most fun I ever have is sitting in with Rick writing, and we laugh at our own jokes.
ADRIAN EDMONDSON Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man wh...
GERMAINE GREER I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an...
PATRICK EWING I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitchi...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I love telling stories, telling jokes, making people laugh. I've got no plans to stop doing it.
DAVID ALAN BASCHE My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
CARROT TOP I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ...
SAM KINISON He laughs. I like his laugh. I hate that I like his laugh.
COLLEEN HOOVER When I started doing standup when I was 17, I was talking about being Indian and specifically ethnic...
HARI KONDABOLU There is not a racist bone in my dad's body. He doesn't even laugh at distasteful jokes.
ALAN WILSON If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
BOB EDWARDS If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
HELEN GIANGREGORIO Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't kn...
RUE MCCLANAHAN We sort of look at our years at 'Letterman' as comedy grad school. I don't mind seeing jokes and hea...
CARTER BAYS wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you coul...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG A good joke doesn’t necessarily need appreciation from others. One can freely laugh at one’s own...
PAWAN MISHRA They started cracking jokes, and I said: 'Ain't nothing funny when I have to work the next day.'
BRUCE WHITE I like jokes, but Ray and I, we never did jokes. We weren't in that line of humor. We each contr...
BOB ELLIOTT I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set o...
ISSA RAE You laugh because I'm different...........
I laugh cause I just farted!
ALBERT EINSTEIN Water jokes about the obstacles on its way; wise man jokes about the obstacles on his way!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I didn't want to do a throwaway, mindless movie with fart jokes just to make 6-year-olds laugh. ...
FRED DURST What's really great is when people get the jokes, when people laugh,
PATRICIA HEATON I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Acade...
DON RICKLES I never wanted to be a model. I never wanted to be a serious actress. I started off doing comedy. I ...
AMANDA BYNES I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh beca...
PAULA DEEN Something about not waiting for the laugh of a laugh track allows you to take lines that otherwise m...
MITCHELL HURWITZ When people told jokes today, they never made me laugh. One look from my dog, and it made my day.
ELLYN GRACE I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleas...
PARMINDER NAGRA I started doing a lot of record dates and lots of commercial stuff. I started to grow tired of the b...
SCOTTY MORRIS You laugh at me becuse I am different. I laugh at you becuse your all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS On Friday, when I came in, we were doing jokes about being able to get out. Then it just started get...
WILL DURST I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing film...
STEVEN WRIGHT People used to laugh at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.
BOB MONKHOUSE Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laug...
NICK WECHSLER You may laugh at a friend's roof; don't laugh at his sleeping accommodation
KENYAN PROVERB You made me laugh at your jokes.
You made me cry at your criticism.
You made me shout at y...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH He played his best game ever. I think he was just exhausted at that point and when he started to mis...
GEORGE FRANCK I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but h...
STEVE FINLEY He bought a bunch of the hats and just started passing them out to our family before a game. I didn'...
JACOB THERING I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the...
STEVE MARTIN They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.
KURT COBAIN You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because your all the same
ABDULLAH AHMAD You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JONATHAN DAVIS His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when ...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more ...
MALCOLM MUGGERIDGE I made so many jokes about poor Russell Crowe, he once knocked on my dressing room door, and told me...
JOAN RIVERS I was dyslexic - was, still am - 'cause I would see words that weren't there. And people jus...
TIM CONWAY The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, a...
JACK DEE After me, everybody started drafting speed. But they used to laugh at a lot of those guys because th...
BOB HAYES You all laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
JOHN DAVIS Honestly, I like someone who is really grounded, super sweet, honest. I need them to have a sense of...
CASPER SMART When he wasn't making quirky jokes about his mother like this—it happened more than once—...
OLIVIA SUDJIC I started doing some acoustic things. When my character was out at sea on a tanker, running his flee...
JACK WAGNER He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at
him.
UNKNOWN People are better able to confront an uncomfortable truth when they can laugh at themselves. Jokes t...
TERENCE T. GORSKI And even I have got to laugh at me.
INDIGO GIRLS Death isn't funny."
"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Eventually, he had me on the ground. And that's when I grabbed his glasses and I threw them. And so,...
JEAN BURKE When I watch movies with my kid like 'Shrek,' I'm like, 'Wow, this is pretty funny.&...
MICHAEL PENA 'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, b...
DAVID CHASE ... it looked at me as it passed, smiling in that crazy-happy way that dogs do. And I started laughi...
EM BAILEY I was allowed to film in the biggest mosque in India and when I told the imam the plot of the movie ...
ALBERT BROOKS I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.
JOHN LENNON No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life."
"Wh...
P.C. CAST There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great piani...
GAD ELMALEH The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I...
MARJORIE PAY HINCKLEY He just started to get his pitches up. I thought he pitched well enough to win.
BOBBY HOWARD I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Here, he jokes with his teammates on the field. He yells encouragement, willingly accepts the spotli...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Watching an adaptation of your novel can be a violent experience: seeing your old jokes suddenly thr...
MARTIN AMIS I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah i...
RITA RUDNER Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at...
WES ADAMSON It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alon...
JIM BUTCHER It's exciting coming back into work, it's always a good laugh. I enjoyed my time at Real Madrid, but...
MICHAEL OWEN At our first meeting I remember when someone said, 'It would be great if the Lahti Orchestra would d...
OSMO VANSKA Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his o...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH He used to get in some trouble at school. But since he started boxing four months ago, he's totally ...
LLOYD JONES The shapes inched closer. I gaped at them, trying to discern their features. "I think I see dead peo...
JAYDE SCOTT Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have bas...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA I've never really told jokes. I'm not good at it.
DAVID E. KELLEY My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trust...
LINCOLN STEFFENS Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his...
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if...
JOHN CLEESE It's a really complicated lesson; it's counterintuitive for a comedian. I basically started taking t...
DAVE GORMAN I live alone, and it's good. I stick on a video, watch telly. I am a bit lonely sometimes, but I lau...
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ANJIE HENLEY When you wish out loud, magic happens
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O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'...
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Of these poor Might-Have-B...
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scroll. I am the master of my fa...
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And from the west,
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods ma...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work en...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The nightingale has a lyre of gold,
The lark's is a clarion call,
And the blackbird plays but ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Men may scoff, and men may pray,
But they pay
Every pleasure with a pain.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The smoke ascends
In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires
Shine and are changed. In the valley...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Or ever the knightly years were gone
With the old world to the grave,
I was a king in Babylon
...
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chan...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the ma...
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With love that...
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Slow pacing, soon homing,
A patriarch that strolls
Through the ten...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Here is the ghost
Of a summer that lived for us,
Here is a promise
Of summer to be.
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Saturday, May 22d.---It is now Saturday night, and I must prepare for the holy Sabbath. My Bible and...
JAMES HENLEY THORNWELL Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever go...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Night with her train of stars / And her great gift of sleep.
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WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the starless night that covers me,
(O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)
Black ...
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BETH DITTO A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTO It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the lo...
BETH BROOKE My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by...
BETH BROOKE I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned te...
BETH DITTO Setbacks are just learning experiences.
BETH BROOKE I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.
BETH DITTO Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
BETH GIBBONS The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a we...
BETH RIESGRAF My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigge...
BETH DITTO We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away...
BETH REVIS I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.
BETH DITTO Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow...
BETH FANTASKEY Choice or no, my heart is his.
BETH REVIS Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could bre...
BETH FANTASKEY Why did I sign up for this?'
'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
BETH FANTASKEY I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things ...
BETH GUTCHEON What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about thei...
BETH BROOKE Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists...
BETH DITTO I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday ...
BETH MOORE Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if...
BETH GRANT God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a parti...
BETH MOORE I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myse...
BETH DITTO The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It mu...
BETH REVIS I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person,...
BETH RIESGRAF As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who a...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them t...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Women want to simplify what they perceive to be an unnecessarily complex shopping process. Above all...
BETH ZIMMERMAN When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be ...
BETH ZIMMERMAN The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential function...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Have some idea of how much you want to spend when you go into a contract with anyone. Allow approxim...
BETH YOUNG I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.
BETH YOUNG I think the confidence and optimism are there. I think they are really starting to believe. Confiden...
BETH YOUNG I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '...
BETH YOUNG There's still a lot of basketball to be played. We visit Allen on Tuesday and they're always tough. ...
BETH YOUNG We probably have six who can score 18 to 20 points. We have five to six which can easily do it.
BETH YOUNG We are the epitome of a true team. We don't have any superstars and everyone has stepped up in one w...
BETH YOUNG There's a lot more attention being given to board leadership than there was a couple of years ago. W...
BETH YOUNG You can't get down in this district. We started 0-2 and that makes it hard. You can't ever give up.
BETH YOUNG