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Quotes About Laughter

Across the room, Nia said with a smirk, "Look at Tinkerbell going all mama-bear." Hope snapped, "Oh, shove the Tinkerbell crap up your ass." For about two seconds, Nia just stared at her. Then she started to laugh.
~ Shiloh Walker
And we held each other in the dark hall and laughed, with the tears running down our cheeks and echoes of our laughter going up the ruined stairway to the sky. 'I am so happy,' Constance said at last, gasping. 'Merricat, I am so happy.' 'I told you that you would like it on the moon.
~ Shirley Jackson
They stood together, away from the pile of stones in the corner, and their jokes were quiet and they smiled rather than laughed.
~ Shirley Jackson
In delay there lies no plenty, present mirth hath present laughter.
~ Shirley Jackson
We bought the big white house, at last, by merely signing our names on a piece of paper. Mr. Gore and Mr. Andrews down at the bank arranged the financial transference with an almost invisible maneuver of figures on a card. When my husband asked if we could borrow our money right back again and use the house as security, everybody laughed.
~ Shirley Jackson
even opened the box?" She parked her fists on her trim little hips. "I have had a very bad day." "Well, so have I." He grinned. "But you just made me laugh, so it's starting to improve." She gave him a glare. "I don't find this funny." He raised the can
~ Shirley Jump
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
~ Shirley MacLaine
First she laughed, then she bawled me out and started crying. This was followed by an attack of hysteria with all the trimmings. What a conflict.
~ Sholem Aleichem
But it's nice having children. It wouldn't faze me at all having ten, fifteen, even seventy-five children. There's only one drawback. They got mouths!
~ Sholem Aleichem
The kind of laughter, that sudden joy that strikes hidden fault lines and cracks them wide open.
~ Sibella Giorello
But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
~ Sidney Sheldon
She knows what it is to be sad and miserable, but those emotions are almost enjoyable. They throw moments of happiness and laughter into sharper relief.
~ Simon Mawer
Sitting there on the bus as it crossed the river and traipsed out through the dreary purlieus of Kennington, the giggling turned to laughter.
~ Simon Mawer
They were waving and chanting as we passed them, so I waved back. 'They're taunting you, Simon,' said Emery, laughing. 'What are they saying, then?' 'It's a song. White man – your breath stinks.
~ Simon Reeve
La stupidità ci faceva ridere, era uno dei nostri grandi motivi di spasso, ma aveva anche qualcosa di spaventevole. Se avesse prevalso, non avremmo più avuto il diritto di pensare, di prendere in giro, di provare veri desideri, veri piaceri. Bisognava combatterla o rinunciare a vivere.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I hadn't known Chancel very well, but ten days earlier I had seen him laughing with the others around the Christmas tree. Maybe Robert was right; the distance between the living and the dead really isn't very great. And yet, like myself, those future corpses who were drinking their coffee in silence appeared ashamed to be so alive.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
She found beauty in the children.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it's less vigorous, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Humor is next to Godliness.
~ Sinclair Lewis
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.
~ Siobhan Dowd
The difference between laughing your head off and shouting your head off is that with one you are happy and with the other you are angry.
~ Siobhan Dowd
Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it is a good way to describe things.
~ Siobhan Dowd
Everyone laughed their heads off, which is not what literally happened but I like the idea of laughing heads becoming detached from bodies through extreme hilarity, so it was a good way to describe things.
~ Siobhan Dowd
They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained.
~ Sir Thomas Malory