Quotes About Laughter

I ask for a decree dooming my bitter enemies to laughter advanced against them.

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.

Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

I haven't been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.

There is nothing but poetry about the existence of childhood real simple soul-moving poetry the laughter and joy of poetry and not its philosophy and there is nothing of poetry about manhood but the reflection and the remembrance of what has been—nothing more

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

He who laughs most, learns best

Laughter is a force for democracy.

Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.

She laughed loudly. It sounded to her husband like someone pushing a witch in a barrel over a waterfall. He pictured his wife in a barrel falling into very deep water, and this cheered him up a bit.

Celebrations are the juice of life.

Era un vaquero, señor, y le encantaba la tierra. Le gustaba tanto que se hizo una mujer fuera de la suciedad y se casó con ella. Pero cuando él la besó, ella se desintegró. Más tarde, en el funeral, cuando el predicador dijo: "El polvo al polvo", se echó a reír a algunas personas, y el vaquero les dispararon. En su ahorcamiento, le dijo a los otros, "voy a estar esperando en el cielo --- con un arma."

The world's whole sap is sunk:The general balm th' hydroptic earth hath drunk,Whither, as to the bed's-feet, life is shrunk,Dead and interr'd; yet all these seem to laugh,Compared with me, who am their epitaph.

one of the most important jobs of grandchildren is to make sure their grandparents do a lot of laughing.

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.

Life is so tough. I don't know how old you are, but I've seen so much in a wink. One phone call and your life is changed forever. We all know that. You better laugh at everything.

Life without laughing is a dreary blank.

Jen[nifer Lawrence]'s main goal in life is to get me to laugh while we're filming sad scenes. And it's the HUNGER GAMES.