Most Laughable Quotes

#1. The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.

Steve Forbes

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.

Plato

#7. Redemption. What a laughable concept. When he looked over his life, he couldn't see where he had first stepped off the righteous path. More important, had he even ever laid a single foot on that path?

Michael R. Fletcher

#8. The whole idea that people have a clue as to how the world works, is just a piece of laughable metaphysical colonialism perpetrated upon the wild country of time.

Lorrie Moore

#9. The majority of believers on this earth find it laughable that we could reduce the call to follow Jesus and make disciples to an invitation to sit in church service.

Francis Chan

#10. 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

#11. Might I be ridiculous? Might my career in music be laughable? Yeah, that's possible, but that's certainly not my intention.

Joaquin Phoenix

#12. The better country club operated on the principle that Raleigh mattered, that its old families were fine ones, and that they needed a place where they could enjoy one another's company without being pawed at. Had we not found this laughable, our country club might have felt desperate.

David Sedaris

#13. 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

#14. Ridendo dicere severum. (tr. Through what is laughable say what is somber.)

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. For the laughable is a sort of error and ugliness that is not painful and destructive, just as, evidently, a laughable mask is something ugly and distorted without pain.

Aristotle.

#16. There are certain battles that you pick. When they're not worth picking, they're laughable stories.

David Beckham

#17. Is it not laughable that we believe in a sacred,infrangible law - thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not kill - in an existence characterized by perpetual lying and perpetual murder?

Albert Camus

#18. The laughable is a species of what is disgraceful.

Aristotle.

#19. What is so often laughable, in the stories of Kundera's Czechoslovakia, is how grimly serious just about everything turns out to be, jokes and games and pleasure included; what's laughable is how terribly little there is to laugh at with any joy.

Philip Roth

#20. I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.

Robert Draper

#21. One of the most egregiously stupid books I've ever come across. I would recommend reading this only because it's the epitome of all that is moronic, superficial, contrived, hollow, false and utterly laughable in publishing today.

Kris Saknussemm

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are interchangeable, they reflect the small number of themes that obsess me, define me, and unfortunately, restrict me. Beyond these themes, I have nothing else to say or write.

Milan Kundera

#25. Like many people who feel themselves to be insignificant, even laughable, Quirrell had a latent desire to make the world sit up and notice him. Quirrell

J.K. Rowling

#26. It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.

Andrew Levkoff

#27. Sometimes paranoids have enemies, and conspiracies are only laughable when they fail to materialize.

Jon Meacham

#28. 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

#29. If they truly loved you they won't devalue you.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. In fact, the harder he tried, the more laughable his efforts turned out.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#31. Pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

John Green

#32. 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

#33. As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?

Ann Coulter

#34. Members of Congress are incredibly blessed and fortune to have the jobs that we have. Nobody makes us run. Every two years we offer for public office, and if you don't want to do it then don't run. But the notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable.

Trey Gowdy

#35. Go to humorous events at comedy clubs and watch laughable movies.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#36. And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

#37. I went from wanting to lick his dimples to wanting to get the hell away from him.

Colleen Hoover

#38. It was another horrible yet almost laughable moment. Cupcakes and birthday car sex had been my undoing.

Richelle Mead

#39. The simplicity of it was disconcerting: a simplicity that made all the other dates they'd had before baffling, those times they'd had to talk or try to be amusing, make an effort to seem like a worthwhile person. The obviousness of it became almost laughable.

David Foenkinos

#40. Being the one to end the call gave the fucking twerp some kind of sense of power. Annoying, yes, but seriously laughable.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#41. 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

#42. Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.

Scott Turow