Quotes About Laughter

You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.

I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Her laughter was like sweet deadly venom.

It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within.

the while shouting his determination to reach some 'big, big cabin with brightness in the roof and walls and floor, and the loud queer music far away'. As two men of moderate size sought to restrain him, he had struggled with maniacal force and fury, screaming of his desire and need to find and kill a certain 'thing that shines and shakes and laughs'.

Los sabios interpretan los sueños, y los dioses se ríen.

Pastor Jón Prímus: Do you remember when Úa shook her curls? Do you remember when she looked at us and laughed? Did she not accept the Creation? Did she reject anything? Did she contradict anything? It was a victory for the Creator, once and for all. Everything that was workaday and ordinary, everything that had limitations, ceased to exist when she came: the world perfect, and nothing mattered anymore. What does Úa mean when she sends people telegrams saying she is dead?

Desire is naughty and doesn't conform to our ideals, which is why we have such a need of them. Desire mocks all human endeavour and makes it worthwhile. Desire is the original anarchist and undercover agent – no wonder people want it arrested and kept in a safe place. And just when we think we've got desire under control it lets us down or fills us with hope. Desire makes me laugh because it makes fools of us all.

Someone to whom jokes are never told soon contracts enthusiasm deficiency.

My father had the right idea. Begin from an assumption of insanity and then laugh, where possible.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

In his] mind, there was no contradiction between I will jump into my grave laughing, appropriate for the end of the war, and I shall gladly hang myself in public as a warning example for all anti-Semites on this earth, which now, under vastly different circumstances, fulfilled exactly the same function of giving him a lift.

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart

When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, they both cry.                                       ââ'¬â€Yiddish proverb

He traveled back again, to when she was that adorable teenager dominating center court, and his favorite Yiddish expression came back to him in a rush: Man plans, God laughs. This was not a kind laugh. "Kitty?

They asked for my name. I was tempted to go with either I. P. Daily or Wink Martindale, but I stuck with Mark Kadison because he was a friend of mine and if they called, he'd just laugh.

Men tracht und Gott lacht.

Apparently, I have a totally different sense of humour.

I like to make people laugh. That's for sure. And I really like to humiliate myself and go very far in derision and stuff. But no, I like everything. I started a little bit of doing drama, too. I like that, too. I guess I just want to touch everything.

If my performance touches someone or helps someone understand themselves a little better or gives them a laugh, I feel like I gave them something. I want to touch people's lives and bring them along with me.

You can't do anything to be funny. That's cringeworthy. If your humor comes out of a place of love every time, you don't make the joke bigger than you. The funniest comedians are in touch with their emotional level.