Laughter Quotes

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

First of all I express sincerity. There's also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn ...

A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the go...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is lo...

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is...

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun...

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

I have spoken of Jonah, and of the story of him and the whale. — A fit story for ridicule, if it was...

It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germani...

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

{She] laughed so that the street seemed full of little silver bells,

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up...

Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic...

They hooted and laughed all the way back to the car, teasing Milkman, egging him on to tell more abo...

It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and ...

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds ...

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighbo...

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish,...

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by h...

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of...

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the diff...

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill eve...

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is w...

Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do ge...

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laught...

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of th...

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I ...

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

Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the...

Thou hast Drawn laughter from A well of secret tears And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking And swe...

Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move ...

The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that t...

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

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

One secret of life is that the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts o...

Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comic...

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it is the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a ...

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a m...

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even pov...

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there i...

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the roug...

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages....

There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep fro...

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr...

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true l...

I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for...

I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to...

Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It i...

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age...

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with ...

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and ...

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...

He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thi...

It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I fi...

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to lau...

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

I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that...

Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

I don’t know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his childr...

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potat...

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, ba...

The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not...

God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me i...

Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, d...

And her laugh was enough to make you want to kick over what you were doing and follow her down the s...

Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was...

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra...

ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its ...

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Laugh now, cry later.

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

Rex, in his early forties, had grown heavy and ruddy; he had lost his Canadian accent and acquired i...

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent ...

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.