Subject: Emotions (Page 2)

It's better to have loved and lost than do forty pounds of laundry a week.

(1904 – 1989) Spanish surrealist painter

This makes me so sore it gets my dandruff up.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg (1878 – 1967) biographer & poet

He's like, 'Caroline, you've got a cavity,' and I'm like, 'I know – and I'd like you to fill it.'

(1964 – ) Canadian stand-up comedian, actress & television host

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

He who laughs last probably didn’t get the joke.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

(1889 – 1977) English comedian, actor & film director

If humor was the foundation of my life, men were definitely the first floor.

(1946 – 1989) comedian & actress

We have nothing to fear but fear itself… and of course the boogieman.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

As my mother always says, “If you have to swear to get laughs, then you’re obviously a c**t.”

(1972 – ) Irish stand-up comedian, voice over artist & actor

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

(1809 – 1865) 16th U.S. president

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

(1917 – 1993) British composer & novelist

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.

(1909 – 1981) writer

Stress cannot exist in the presence of pie.

(1947 – ) American playwright, screenwriter & film director

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Well I don’t see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy.


I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don’t seem to know what real pain is; I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.

(1956 – ) American comedian

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is undeniably true, but everything else being equal, it’s a lovely thing to have around the house.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host