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Quotes About Laughter

mostly we've had to found ways to amuse ourselves." "Really?" Valkyrie asked. "Like what?" Plight's smile faded. "Like human sacrifice." He grabbed one arm and Lenka grabbed the other and Valkyrie cried out. Then they both let go. laughing. "Naw," Plight said, we just play board games." ..."she fell for it!" gasped Lenka. "She fell for the human sacrifice bit!
~ Derek Landy
She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.
~ Derek Landy
Which college?' 'Hmm?' 'Which college do you go to?' Fletcher nodded. 'Yes.' 'I'm sorry?' 'Oh,' Fletcher said, and laughed. Valkyrie's parents looked at Fletcher in near bewilderment. Fletcher looked back at them in total bewilderment. Valkyrie shook her head.
~ Derek Landy
Cow," Tanith muttered, and that was it, the floodgates opened, and Stephanie doubled over with laughter that echoed throughout the warehouse. Tanith pointed at Stephanie and backed away. "Skulduggery, she's not being professional!
~ Derek Landy
Despite her worries, despite her anxiety, despite everything that had happened and everything she had done, Valkyrie looked down at Sergeant Yonder and found she still had the capacity to laugh at stupid people.
~ Derek Landy
Glen jogged back. "What? What are you laughing about?" "Nothing," said Amber, trying to contain herself. "Did you learn anything?" "No," said Glen. "Turns out that old guy is German and doesn't speak a word of English." "Then what were you arguing about?" Glen looked puzzled. "How should I know?
~ Derek Landy
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
~ Alan Watts
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
~ George Herbert
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.
~ Georges Bataille
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
~ Joseph Heller
All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.
~ Leonard Carmichael
Laughter is no enemy to learning
~ Walt Disney
Laughing brains are more absorbent.
~ Alton Brown
You can't really learn God's hope like you learn the logic of an argument or the details of a story. It's more like learning to belly laugh. You catch hope from someone who has it down in their gut.
~ Shane Claiborne
Jokes against the legal profession were what the legal profession loved most.
~ Ian McEwan, The Children Act
How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.
~ Jimmy Buffett
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
~ William Arthur Ward
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.
~ Anita Moorjani
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
~ Thomas More
Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.
~ William Shakespeare
She had a nice laugh, even as she was using it as a weapon against him.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Katerina, do you ever watch a comedy show on TV? At the end of one of those 30-minute shows, the credits roll. About 75 people have worked on that show, and only sometimes the shows are funny. I am one man alone. Given the odds, you are lucky if you get a single chuckle out of me. You're lucky if I even make you smile.
~ Jeffrey Benson