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“Seventy… such a beautiful number. Not a count of years passed but of blessings lived. Every wrinkle, every laugh line, every scar… each one tells a story of love, courage, and grace.”
Charo Santos-Concio (born 1955) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: LOOK: Charo Santos marks 70th birthday with openness and gratitude ABS-CBN News | Nikka Sabio, Push Team | Published Oct 28, 2025 04:16 PM PHT
“Let's live, love, laugh, and learn together.”
Loida Nicolas Lewis (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's nice also to laugh at yourselves, lalo na sa mga mistake sa grammar ko (especially my grammar mistakes). So what? I'm not an American!”
Melanie Marquez (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love Adriano very much. I love and respect him. And he still makes me laugh. No one can speak ill of Adriano. He is deeply good, honest and consistent.”
Claudia Mori (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Proverbs 31:25: “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.”
Camille Prats (born 1985) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Camille Prats on turning 40: 'Feels like a mix of fierceness and softness', Nikka Sabio, Push Team 20 June 2025.
“(About Matteo Salvini) He always makes people laugh, like a fart. I imagine Salvini in government in six years' time: he will have reintroduced the racial laws of Fascism. [About the failure to grant a visa for Nigeria] He's lucky, if someone translates what he says to the Nigerians, I don't know if he'll get back from Nigeria.”
“Peppino was not born just to make people laugh. Those in the extra category like him can do anything. It is no coincidence that he played Molière, Machiavelli, and Pinter. Eduardo, on the other hand, only played himself.”
Paolo Villaggio (1932–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Genoa played a fundamental role. Because Genoa is a hypercritical city. If you don't make people laugh or cry, you'd better stop doing those jobs. It's a very strict city and in this sense I find it very similar to Sardinia. (p. 43)”
Fabrizio De André (1940–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(About Donald Trump) We laugh at his hair, but we don’t listen closely enough to what he says. Is it possible that none of us are concerned that this rather unbalanced gentleman might become president of the most powerful nation in the world? That he might have the codes to launch nuclear missiles wherever he pleases and that he might influence the global economy?”
Giancarlo Magalli (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m not just a storyteller. I make the story come alive. That’s my purpose. So when you’re watching me, I’m going to bring you in. I’m going to make you cry. I’m going to make you laugh. I’m going to make you angry. And that’s who Sisa is, and that’s who I am.”
Hilda Koronel (born 1957) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: . "Watch: Hilda Koronel Is Not Done Telling Stories About Survival". Vogue.ph. 12 March 2026
“Niki [Lauda] was also a great champion off the track: a straightforward and sincere man, and a loyal friend. He was also tough when it came to saying things with complete transparency. [...] Do they remember him as a 'computer'? He was a very sensitive young man. He always worked on the details […]. He liked to laugh and have fun, but there was always an underlying seriousness to him.”
Luca di Montezemolo (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When energy is on me, I get shy. But as soon as I poured it out, and I was trying to make this girl laugh and that girl blush, then fear went out the window. It was an energetic exchange that was really beautiful. I finally understood the addiction that performers have to being onstage.”
Austin Butler (born 1991) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wang, Jen (April 21, 2022). "The Actor Who Would Be King: Austin Butler's Journey to Elvis". Vogue.
“Someone who will try to make me angry or create a situation that is not related to my character in order to put me in the state of the character. It’s 100 percent counter productive. Either I will get mad and I won’t be good or – and most of the time this is what happens – I will laugh. I cannot take it seriously.”
Marion Cotillard (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I enjoy making people laugh and cry. I think I was born to entertain people.”
Xia Vigor (born 2009) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Xia Vigor now Viva’s wonderkid (10 February 2020) Manila Standard
“When there is already someone who cry, than I can laugh.”
Menashe lustig (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If they could shout loud enough they might bring the world back to it's senses, they might laugh loud enough to raise the dead.”
Sebastian Faulks (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It made him laugh, mad-eyed and bearded, like a hermit in his cave.”
Sebastian Faulks (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...I think of the Negro's life and of its mystery. We have no more marks to guide us than the bird in the air or the fish in the water, and in the midst of this uncertainty we live, and some laugh and others sing. (chapter 15)”
Simone Schwarz-Bart (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have a very simple core to Hollow Knight [... a]nd then along the way, we come up with things that make us laugh or I think are interesting. And we just go for it until they're too tired to do anymore.”
Ari Gibson (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Count it therefore a privilege, a blessing, to have someone to disagree with, consult with, share things in common with, laugh with, and cry with. All of these, while knowing you share the same DNA.”
Gideon Okeke (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And Clitarchus and others say that in Carthage, during great prayers, they place a boy in the hands of Cronus (a bronze statue is set up, with outstretched hands, and under it a baking oven) and then put fire under; the boy shrunk by the fire seems to laugh.”
Cleitarchus (401–301 BC) said by 301 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Going to set every day knowing that something in the day would always make me laugh, something the actor’s would do or the situations we would be filming. It was a very affirming shoot and I loved every minute of it.”
Akin Omotoso (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And that’s our problem. We laugh at everything, just stopping short of seriousness.”
Njabulo Ndebele (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As it has often been said, we laugh in order not to cry.”
Obiwu (born 1962) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing humour, suffering, and the emotional voice of his poetry. Q&A: Uche Peter Umez Interviews Poet Obiwu, Africa in Words, 26 September 2016.
“Truth, relate-ability, and just being able to laugh and chuckle [are important elements of my work]. I’m not the funniest; I’m not the most talented. But I can tell you one thing – I know how to put the two together with hard work.”
“The fact it’s not spoken, makes it a universal language. Every kid, every person around the world can see the video and get a laugh, simply by watching the images.”
Khaby Lame (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Becoming an actor has always been my dream. Ever since I was a little boy, my hero was Will Smith in Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Right now I'm studying acting with a coach and learning English. My dream is to become an actor and make people laugh.”
Khaby Lame (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On the pitch, you know you're supposed to win, but at the end of the match, you shake hands and sometimes even laugh about it.”
Gavin Lane (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As there is a time to laugh, so there is a time to cry.”
Isaac Emokpae (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At times you want to laugh, but there is always a method behind the madness. When you see it come off, then you say ‘okay, I see why this worked’.”
Malcolm Marx (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mother worked two jobs and it was hard for her to keep an eye on me, I never did drugs or anything, but I was hanging out with the wrong type of crowd and getting into a little trouble. I was the class clown, doing things to make everybody laugh.”
Quincy Watts (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lenny Henry approached me to direct his film. He’d seen my work, and said he wanted to interview me immediately – which would have been great, had I not just got on a flight to Nigeria! He wasn’t put off though, and interviewed me on the phone. Thankfully, I made him laugh”
Destiny Ekaragha (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everybody's a little bit different. I think it's from your upbringing, it's from your experiences. Occasionally I like to have fun and laugh. More times than not I like to be direct. But ... it's a game. And you want to have fun playing a game. As much fun as you can have playing football, coaching football, that's what we want to see out on the field.”
Brian Flores (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”
George Bernard Shaw (disputed) first seen 1907 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Credited to Shaw in the lead in to the mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) and other recent works, but this or slight variants of it are also sometimes attributed to W. C. Fields, Charlie Chapl…
“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.”
Karl Marx (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Voltaire (misattributed) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Creator — A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh." — H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques (1920), p. 203. and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), Ch. 30
“Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.”
Abraham Maslow (attributed) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Loretta LaRoche, Relax — You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work (1998), p. xvii.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
Mahatma Gandhi (misattributed) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Describing the stages of a winning strategy of nonviolent activism. There is no record of Gandhi saying this. A close variant of the quotation first appears in a 1918 US trade union address by Nicholas Klein:
“Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.”
Charles Reade (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou and I individuals no more shall be mingled in ecstasy, Joyful and secure from foolish babble, thou and I. All the bright plumed birds of heaven will devour their hearts with envy In the place where we shall laugh in such a fashion thou and I.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is said that on the eve of battle, he was told by a native of Trachis that the Persian archers were so numerous that, when they fired their volleys the mass of arrows blocked out the sun. Dienekes, however, quite undaunted by this prospect, remarked with a laugh, "Good. Then we'll have our battle in the shade.”
Leonidas I (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You get treated better [laugh], Being a girl about town is different from being a girl with five guys about town.”
Colleen Fitzpatrick (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue and sense are one; and trust me still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound. Virtue (for mere good nature is a fool) Is sense and spirit with humanity. ’Tis sometimes angry, and its frown confounds; ’Tis even vindictive, but in vengeance just, Knaves fain would laugh at it; some great ones dare But at his heart the most undaunted son Of Fortune dreads its name and awful charms.”
John Armstrong (poet) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you can laugh together, you can work together.”
Robert Orben (attributed) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christine Arpe Gang, Scripps Howard News Service (August 7, 1995) "Healing gift of humor isn't a laughing matter: Chuckling is linked to good times, good health", Houston Chronicle, p. 8.
“When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered.”
Ninon de L'Enclos (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
William Shakespeare (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.”
Aaliyah (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom.”
Marguerite de Navarre (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many weep for the sin, while they laugh over the pleasure.”
Marguerite de Navarre (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beware of those who laugh at nothing or at everything.”
Arnold Glasow (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source