I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to live, love and laugh....And to enjoy a good story when there is one to be heard.

Val Edward Simone

Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant the only harmless great thing.

John Donne

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

George Jean Nathan

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in.

Harvey Fierstein

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance.

Muriel Spark

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White, Some

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

If you write the word monkey a million times, do you start tothink you're Shakespeare?

Steven Wright

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

Ralph Fiennes

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Newt Gingrich

I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life.

Mark Harmon