Quotes About Laughter

He who laughs and loves is always rich; he who sulks and hates is always poor!

People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty or wrong, they won't laugh. But if it's a big, dirty, smart, funny laugh, they love it.

People love to laugh together. Like when I'm at home and I'm watching shows, I don't laugh out loud, but if I'm in a crowd and everyone is into it...

I know it's going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Swell, just swell," muttered Howie. "Twenty-nine kids laughing at me in girls' socks carrying a stupid little pillow.

were poking a little fun at Ramona. "Yes, ma'am!" said her father, and saluted as if she were somebody important. This time Ramona had to laugh.

Oh, children and pets!" said the lady, with an airy laugh. "You never can tell what little children are going to say, and I have had a lot of pets and they are always into something.

contagious, infectious. Diseases spread by contact are contagious. Those spread by air and water are infectious. Used figuratively ('contagious laughter', 'infectious enthusiasm'), either is all right.

He had a curiously stunted sense of humor and loved practical jokes that veered dangerously close to cruelty. Once on a hot day he filled a friend's water jug with kerosene and mirthfully stood by as the friend took a mighty swig. The friend ended up in the hospital.

There is hope for the future because God has a sense of humor and we are funny to God.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can fi nd humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?

Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other...

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Don't you dare to squeeze that sponge over me,' she began angrily. 'This beastly getting up early! Why, at home . . .' 'Why, at home, "We don't get up till eight o'clock,"' chanted some of the girls, and laughed. They knew Gwendoline Mary's complaints by heart now.

It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry

He laughed out loud. He was trying to remember if his memory had been altered. The epitome of irony and futility.

because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he had no idea what he was saying, so great was his foreboding of misfortune and his feeling of powerlessness over the future, however great his thirst for goodness and his capacity for happiness.

I know that humour can take on anything.