#laught

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else. ↗

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

#battle #boa #describe #else #fact

Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years. ↗

— Russell Baker

#been #canned #comedy #dead #grafted

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. ↗

— Henry Walter Bates

#anarchy #city #coloured #elated #english

It's a major part of world history that men are trying to kill each other. It's just one slaughter after the other. We talk about it, but no one's really listening. ↗

— Fred Ward

#after #each #history #just #just one

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. ↗

— James Boswell

#laughter #love #nothing #wear #winning

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#genius #i #intervened #laughter #like

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. ↗

— Will Durst

#anxiety #back #comedy #contempt #creep

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children. ↗

— John Gibbon

#children #few #forget #grief #horror

Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#addressing #being #black #brought #christians

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. ↗

— August Wilson

#body needs #hand #laughter #love #need