Quotes About Laughter

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as possible.

Haven't laughed this hard in a long time. I better stop now before I start crying. Go off to sleep in the sunshine...I don't want to see the day when its dying.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

Harry sent ten different puns to a friend in the hope that at least one of the puns would make him laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

He never published any more cruel and anonymous satire either, for he'd finally learned that it could hurt people and lead to embarrassing and potentially dangerous repercussions. Moreover, he avoided even the threat of fighting to uphold his honor. He deplored violence anyway. When someone insulted him or tried to pick a fight, Lincoln just laughed at the man and walked off.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

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.

It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind.

And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.

Je suis persuadé que chaque fois qu'un homme sourit et mieux encore lorsqu'il rit, il ajoute quelque chose à la durée de sa vie.»

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over some of the bad spots.

Vonnegut had seen the worst of human conduct and refused to lie about the sort of trouble we were in, but who had not allowed his doubt to curdle into cynicism, who, for all his dark prognostication, was a figure of tremendous hope. The evidence was in his books, which performed the greatest feat of alchemy known to man: the conversion of grief into laughter by means of courageous imagination. Like any decent parent, he had made the astonishing sorrow of the examined life bearable.

I bet this Loki gets a big kick out of it every time you tell it," Rocket said, chuckling. The thin smile on Thor's face quickly fell. "Not anymore" were the only words Thor could manage before he turned away.

Did you ever hear someone say this: "It was more fun than a barrel of monkeys." Did you ever smell a barrel of monkeys?