Madeleine de Souvre Quotes
The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
Quotes to Explore
-
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
-
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
-
I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
-
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
-
The highest state is laughter.
-
I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
-
I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It's the little things in life that make me happy.
-
When I was five I had violin lessons.
-
Laughter drives shouting away.
-
My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
-
When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
-
During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
-
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
-
The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
-
Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
-
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
-
On my graduation there was a party by the junior students, and I was given a hair brush as a gift - if I take off my hat, you know what I mean.(laughter)
-
But fair the exil'd Palm-tree grewMidst foliage of no kindred hue;Through the laburnum’s dropping goldRose the light shaft of Orient mould,And Europe’s violets, faintly sweet,Purpled the mossbeds at its feet.
-
We none of us know our ancestors beyond a little way. We all of us may have kings' blood in our veins.
-
That each sorrow has its purpose, By the sorrowing oft unguessed, But as sure as the sun brings morning, Whatever is-is best.
-
Those who are unswerving have resolve.
-
I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.
-
The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
