Quotes About Laughter

There's a lot to be said for making people laugh… did you know that's all some people have? It isn't much… but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Children and fools have merry lives.

We can laugh happily with our children, but not with money.

Weeping bride, laughing wife; laughing bride, weeping wife.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

And right from the get-go when George Segal puts on a gorilla suit and Ruth Gordon punches him in the nuts, this movie had me. At that age, the height of comedy was a guy in a gorilla suit, and the only thing funnier than that was a guy getting punched in the nuts. So a guy in a gorilla suit getting punched in the nuts was the absolute pinnacle of comedy.

I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying "Ain't that the truth

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

My library has two books," Fadia says, "and I have yet to finish coloring the second one." She brightens, and her laughter grows louder when she realizes I've cracked a smile. "Fadia can be funny sometimes.

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

Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Let all the strains of joy mingle in my last song---the joy that makes the earth flow over in the riotous excess of the grass, the joy that sets the twin brothers, life and death, dancing over the wide world, the joy that sweeps in with the tempest, shaking and waking all life with laughter, the joy that sits still with its tears on the open red lotus of pain, and the joy that throws everything it has upon the dust, and knows not a word.

A big laugh, a glass of wine, time to talk and laugh with each other, a moment to notice the simple pleasures -- these are the keys to a quality of life.

Snowball?" It's white." Meow." It's so girly." This from a guy who named his poodle Princess." his laughter died. "How do you know about Princess?" Your sister told me.

You're beautiful," he said. "I'm as big as cow." "A beautiful cow." She chuckled. "I'm fat." "You're not fat." (Stella & Beau)

He was laughing, silently, and then we were both laughing, and then something changed. It was as if I had been watching the world through oiled parchment or smoked glass, which was yanked abruptly away. Everything grew very clear and bright; the music burst forth in majesty; we stood still and the room turned around us; and there was Kiggs, right in the middle of all of it, laughing.

He looked up at the reddening sky and said with a self-deprecating laugh, "You put me to shame, Seraphina. Your bravery always has." "It's not bravery; it's bullheaded bumbling." He shook his head, staring off into the middle distance. "I know courage when I see it, and when I lack it.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.

When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.

I'm kind of emotionally dyslexic, and when I feel vulnerable or nervous, I laugh.

Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.