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Quotes About Laughter

I stand in the dark, start to unbutton. Then I hear something inside my body. I've broken, something has cracked, that must be it. Noise is coming up, coming out, of the broken place, in my face. Without warning: I wasn't thinking about here or there or anywhere. If I let the noise get out into the air it will be laughter, too loud, too much of it, someone is bound to hear.
~ Margaret Atwood
We use butter, I said. When we can get it. Or margarine. A lot of the time it's margarine. Butter, he said, musing. That's very clever. Butter. He laughed. I could have slapped him.
~ Margaret Atwood
Tonight I have a little surprise for you," he says. He laughs; it's more like a snigger. I notice that everything this evening is little. He wishes to diminish things, myself included.
~ Margaret Atwood
what is is, as Grandma Win used to say, and what can't be cured must be endured, and laugh and the world laughs with you but cry and you cry alone.
~ Margaret Atwood
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn for the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh coincides directly with our ability to fight. If we can make fun of it, we can transcend it.
~ Margaret Cho
I define joy as a spectrum of emotions, actions, and responses that includes gladness, cheer, happiness, merriment, delighting, dancing, shouting, exulting, rejoicing, laughing, playing, brightening, blessing and being blessed, taking pleasure in and being well pleased.
~ Margaret Feinberg
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
~ Margaret Mead
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face. - Rhett Butler
~ Margaret Mitchell
I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.
~ Whitney Cummings
In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured.
~ Robert Breault
Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'
~ David Letterman
The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.
~ Billy Crystal
You never worry about the last laugh if you've been laughing the whole time
~ Drake
You're here for a good time, not a long time.
~ Colin McRae
By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
~ Giacomo Casanova
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
~ Kajol
How time flies when one has fun!
~ Samuel Beckett
Family time is the best time.
~ Carmelo Anthony
A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
~ Brian Regan
There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.
~ Spike Milligan
I know I am deathless. No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before. I laugh at what you call dissolution, and I know the amplitude of time.
~ Walt Whitman
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
~ Thomas Szasz
Time flies when you are having fun.
~ Albert Einstein
Make a commitment to having fun. See your best friends and make time for your hobbies and passions.
~ Robert Holden