Laughter Quotes

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

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

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Comedy is a serious business. A serious business with only one purpose--to make people laugh.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter.

And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing.

What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

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

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh.

Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

Roy Blount, who is the funniest person I know, journeys deep into the dark heart of humor and brings back a wonderfully insightful, superbly crafted song of the soul that had me laughing and crying too

Two similar faces, neither of which alone causes laughter, use laughter when they are together, by their resemblance.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory.

Living without Laughing isn't living. Be silly. Be honest. Be Kind.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

Laugh as much as you can.

His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

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

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

Laughter is America's most important export.

But people will laugh at all sorts of things.

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.

I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

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

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

Nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the onset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have a malady in the less attractive forms.

He who laughs.....lasts.

You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love life.

The funniest thing about comedy is that you never know why people laugh. I know what makes them laugh but trying to get your hands on the why of it is like trying to pick an eel out of a tub of water.

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.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.