Quotes About Laughter

Luulen että juuri se teki minusta aikuisen, se oivallus että raakuus on yhdistettävissä nauruun.

That diversion of life towards mechanism is the real cause of laughter

he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

One's theories, after all, matter little, it is one's humor that is the great thing.

May Bartram smiled. "I don't pretend it exactly shows that I'm not living for you. It's my intimacy with you that's in question." He laughed as he saw what she meant. "Yes, but since, as you say, I'm only, so far as people make out, ordinary, you're—aren't you? no more than ordinary either. You help me to pass for a man like another. So if I am, as I understand you, you're not compromised. Is that it?

It's very easy to laugh at her but it is not easy to be as brave as she.

Her laugh produced in him a momentary gloom.

and with that he began to laugh, not a laugh either, but a cackle, a hideous cackle like a rooster with its head on the block. It got him so badly that he had to stop and hold his guts; the tears were streaming down his eyes and between the cackles he let out the most terrible heartrending sobs.

No quiero ser razonable ni lógico. ¡Los detesto! Quiero reventar de risa, quiero divertirme. Quiero hacer algo. Quiero sentarme en un café y pasarme el día hablando. Dios, nosotros tenemos nuestros defectos...pero tenemos entusiasmo. Es mejor cometer errores que no hacer nada.

You are always laughing at the wrong moment; you are considered cruel and heartless when in reality you are only tough and durable. But if you would laugh when others laugh and weep when they weep then you must be prepared to die as they die and live as they live.

To make the world laugh is one thing; to make it happy is quite another. Nobody has even succeeded in doing it.

Between laughs I could hear my mother's words ringing in my ears. "Why don't you write something that will sell?

Siempre te ríes cuando no debes; te consideran cruel y despiadado, cuando, en realidad, eres simplemente resistente y duradero. Pero, si te ríes cuando los otros ríen y lloras cuando los otros lloran, en ese caso tienes que prepararte para morir como ellos mueren y para vivir como ellos viven. Eso significa estar en lo cierto y llevar la peor parte al mismo tiempo. Significa estar muerto, cuando estás vivo, y estar vivo solo cuando estás muerto.

Every life moves far too swiftly. A few anecdotes, one or two passages of laughter, a midnight flight of sorrow, and then the end.

I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight, Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, And Edith with golden hair.

Whatever my fate, I'll go to it laughing.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and to be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing--mores the pity.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing..

Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer; and come what will, one comfort's always left--that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

My friends say I make them laugh a lot, so I think that somewhere in me is a little comedic ability that comes out in the most inappropriate or unexpected moments. I did a lot of sketch comedy years ago. That's always in me.

When greeting Pope Benedict a few years ago, I was meant to kiss the papal ring but I head-butted his hand instead. He just laughed at me.