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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor. -- Linda Gray
The idea that if you are very clever you shouldn't be an actor would be laughable in Russia. -- Samuel West
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
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
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable. -- Henry Rollins
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
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
The man of understanding finds everything laughable. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one is laughable who laughs at himself. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No one is laughable who laughs at himself. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe. -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
My movie career - if such a thing even exists - is laughable. -- Elaine Stritch
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. -- Henri Bergson
And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously. -- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. -- Henri Bergson
Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention. -- Joaquin Phoenix
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
It's malarkey. When you tell people that the roof crushing in on your head is not the cause of injury, it's your head hitting the roof, it's laughable. -- Joan Claybrook
Abstraction in photography is ridiculous, and is only an imitation of painting. We stopped imitating painters a hundred years ago, so to imitate them in this day and age is laughable. -- Berenice Abbott
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
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart? -- Chet Baker
One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders. -- Carolyn Murphy
I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable. -- Tom Scholz
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
As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens. -- Stephen King
The clown has great importance as part of the search for what is laughable and ridiculous in man. We should put the emphasis on the rediscovery of our own individual clown, the one that has grown-up within us and which society does not allow us to express. -- Jacques Lecoq
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling or too hard to explain. After all, after years and travels my secrets are all I have left to chew on in the night. -- Emma Donoghue
When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer. -- Seth
Small actions are at the heart of kaizen. By taking steps so tiny that they seem trivial or even laughable, you'll sail calmly past obstacles that have defeated you before. Slowly - but painlessly! - you'll cultivate an appetite for continued success and lay down a permanent new route to change. -- Robert D. Maurer
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
The director of 'Independence Day,' 'Godzilla' and 'The Patriot' has certain attributes, all of which are given full vent in 'The Day After Tomorrow.' He's crude, stupid, slick, cornball, predictable, laughable, relentless, trivial and, the sum of all these, ridiculous. He's never made a movie you could believe and he still hasn't. -- Stephen Hunter
The idea that somehow you're going to tax the 'rich' enough to pay for quality health care for every American who doesn't have it, can't afford it or stands to lose it, not to mention for all of the undocumented aliens who receive it for free now and presumably will continue to in Obama health land, is almost laughable. -- Susan Estrich
I was just at the newly opened Creationist Museum in Kentucky.... And they have this exhibit of a giant dinosaur...with a saddle on its back. Because the world is only 5000 years old, so man and the dinosaurs had to coexist, and, of course, we rode them. A theory I thought laughable at the age of eight when I saw it on the Flintstones! -- Bill Maher
My technique is laughable at times. I have developed a style of my own, I suppose, which creeps around. I don't have to have too much technique for it. I've developed the parts of my technique that are useful to me. I'll never be a very fast guitar player. I don't really know what to say about my style. There's always a melodic intent in there. -- David Gilmour
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe -- Mary Boykin Chesnut
Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies. -- Jeffrey Gitomer
A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable. -- Herbert V. Prochnow
It's so laughable that it's somewhere beyond comedy and right into tragedy again. -- Libba Bray
My haters are laughable punks, my supporters the greatest people that ever lived. -- Ted Nugent
Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites. -- Plato
Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize. -- Jon Meacham
There is nothing more awkward and more laughable than a naked dude with his wiener flopping. -- Mark Hoppus
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish. -- Thomas Carlyle
I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age. -- Voltaire
The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable. -- Peter Diamandis
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... -- Thomas Sowell
Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh. -- Joan Rivers
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for. -- Herman Melville
A new and speculative idea, which although it may seem trivial and almost laughable, is nonetheless of great value in quickening the spirit of invention. -- Michael J. Gelb
The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human. -- Donald Phillip Verene
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors. -- Will Arnett
People like the Mormons and the Scientologists, who I think should combine and make a Mormontologist because what they believe is just so out there it's just laughable. -- Bill Maher
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

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