#Laughter Quotes

“A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!”

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”

“A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.”

“Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.”

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

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

“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.”

“Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.”

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

“An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.”

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.”

“The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.”

“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.”

“I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.”

“Laughter not time destroyed my voiceAnd put that crack in it,And when the moon's pot-belliedI get a laughing fit.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I have a great love of animals and laughter.”

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”

“In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”

“Laughter is America's most important export.”

“Laughter is no enemy to learning”

“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.”

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

“To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.”

“I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.”

“Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!”

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

“Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.”

“The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.”

“Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing.”

“Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.”

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

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

“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.”

“If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.”

“If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.”

“If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.”

“... War is for everyone, for children too.I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.The best way is to come uphill with meAnd have our fire and laugh and be afraid.”

“I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.”

“The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.”

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

“She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.”

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

“Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.”

“Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

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

“My father used to call me the laughing hyena.”