Quotes About Laughter

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame, and self-loathing - they are not all bad. Those devils have also been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter, and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Thos who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen to be at my expense, I joined in and accepted my star with as much pleased dignity as I could muster.

They were eyes made for laughter, but not raucous yuks; rather, for the laughter of wit, of erudition, of the bon mot.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn't a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

Kill you all! The clown was laughing and screaming. Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

Laughter, Susannah would later reflect, is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

I used to work for this guy before I came here...He used to tell me that 'never' is the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

She laughed at the stars, frightened but free, her terror as sharp as pain and as sweet as a ripe October apple

I'm not laughing at you guys, King said. It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.

When you lived in the funhouse, the laff riot just never stopped.

For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

but shame is like laughter. And inspiration. It doesn't knock.

As Wendy watched them they burst into a chord of tinkling, girlish laughter. She felt a smile touch her own lips; not one of them could be under sixty.

What's flattery?" "Flattery," Wendy told him, "is when your daddy says he likes my new yellow slacks even if he doesn't or when he says I don't need to take off five pounds." "Oh. Is it lying for fun?" "Something very like that." He had been looking at her closely and now said: "You're pretty, Mommy." He frowned in confusion when they exchanged a glance and then burst into laughter.