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Quotes About Laughter

Q: What do you call a cow with no legs? A: Ground beef.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What's invisible and smells like carrots? A: Easter Bunny farts.
~ Scott McNeely
Q: What do you get when you cross a cow and a duck? A: Milk and quackers.
~ Scott McNeely
Write thank-you notes. Tip well. Sing. Drink responsibly. Remember that good manners cost nothing, and open doors. Reach out to someone who is lonely. Make them laugh. Help people smile.
~ Scott Simon
Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still.
~ Scott Turow
When I'm afraid of events in world history—when it seems like evil and terror will triumph—let me hear the laughter of heaven.
~ Scotty Smith
I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.
~ Elif Safak
We can change the world one laugh at a time.
~ Liza Donnelly
~I use humor instead of getting into that whole yes and no thing all the time. It's about just getting them to laugh rather than getting in power struggles.~
~ Marcia Cross
Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.
~ Mario Batali
She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
~ Mother Teresa
I laugh all the time. I'm an easy laugher. You can find me on any set, because I'm always laughing.
~ Quentin Tarantino
It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny.
~ Seth Green
I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.
~ Carson Kressley
What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.
~ Alice Munro
I feel like any time John Oliver is added to something, the comedy is instantly there. He's so funny.
~ Alison Brie
In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets; you may not find something to laugh about immediately.
~ Allen Klein
I once got sacked for laughing ... mind you, I was driving a hearse at the time.
~ Bernard Manning
A crisis + time = humor.
~ Blaine Lee Pardoe
If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.
~ Bruce Willis
Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.
~ Daphne du Maurier
When you're going broke, it's best to have a great time.
~ Diane Kochilas
I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.
~ Dick Van Dyke
That's actually a rare thing to be on a set full of people that you admire and make you laugh all the time.
~ Ed Helms