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Quotes About Laughter

Diego Costa is the one who plays around a lot, who jokes a lot in the dressing room. It's just his way, joking around with all of us, every hour of every day.
~ Willian
I am always joking and always clowning, giving and helping.
~ Red Buttons
I grew up in Manchester in a big Irish family - there are seven of us in all - so my life has always been about role-playing, about doing anything for a laugh. I'm always joking about; that's the way I am.
~ Shayne Ward
Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
~ Nick Kroll
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
I'm joking all the time with my friends, even when we're talking about serious things.
~ Kurt Vile
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
~ Francis Bacon
MARE'S NEST. He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent cause.
~ Francis Grose
I think," he said, "that you may be the kind of dog who bites because she is chained up." He expected her to laugh, or to flash out at him, or to do both. She did not look up, but with a melancholy kind of trouble in her eyes. "A lovely analogy: I thank you," she said. "But what if I am the kind of dog who bites because it pleases her?" "I don't believe it," said Smith.
~ Francis Spufford
relámpagos de risa carmesíes...
~ Francisco de Quevedo
Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you. I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
~ Francois Rabelais
to laugh is proper to the man.
~ Francois Rabelais
There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.
~ Francoise Sagan
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.
~ Francoise Sagan
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
~ Francoise Sagan
It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me.
~ Frank Carson
the greatest humourists are deep down usually angry men, who know that human nature ignores tirades, but is responsive to laughter.
~ Frank McLynn
Half happy. We wander among Mayflowers, among the lonely paths in the woods. We hover over gatherings of people, over the scene of accidents, gardens, festivals. We cower in chimneys of dwelling places and behind the bed curtains. Give me your hand. We don't associate with each other, but we see and hear everything that is going on in the world. We know that everything is stupidity, everything that men do and contend for, and we laugh at it.
~ Frank Wedekind
We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There are two distinct aspects to Communion wine: one aspect is the wine itself, the other is the idea of communion. Wine is certainly warming, but communion is a great deal more so.
~ Franny Billingsley
I've been thinking," said the Eldric image. "Ooh, thinking!" I said. "Shall I tell your father?" "Very funny," said Eldric, but he was laughing.
~ Franny Billingsley
The first meeting of the Fraternitus Bad-Boyificus was also to be my first fighting lesson. I made a fist and showed it to Eldric. "Fistibus Briony." I shook my fist. "Eldric terrorificorumest?" "Terrific? I'm terrific!" "Not terrific!" I said. "Quite the opposite. Listen carefully: terrorificorum." "Hmm," said Eldric. "Grant me patience, O Jupiter Magnificum!" "Not terrified!" shouted Eldric at last. "never terrified of Briony's fistibus!" We laughed and laughed.
~ Franny Billingsley
Never punch from the elbow." "Of course not," I said. "Only a stupidibus would fight like that." Guess what? I can punch as well as make people laugh.
~ Franny Billingsley
If people laugh at primates at the zoo, they do so, I suspect, precisely because they're unsettled by the mirror held up to them.
~ Frans de Waal
In a world divided by chimpophiles and bonobophiles, we all had a good laugh when Stephen peeled his banana. (62)
~ Frans de Waal