Laughter Quotes

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."

you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.

I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed across the way its getting late It was just another night with the sun set and the moon rise not so far behind to give us just enough light to lay down underneath the stars listen to papas translations of the stories across the sky we drew our own constellations

How we feel about ourselves, the joy we get from living, ultimately depends directly on how the mind filters and interprets everyday experiences. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath not to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, brightly smile and sweetly sing. Smile - though I shall not be near thee; Sing - though I shall never hear thee.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.

God laughs, it seems, because God knows how it all turns out in the end.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter.

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...)

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a close and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of [from audience: soap, in reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join."

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

I never smile unless I mean it.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.