Quotes About Laughter

the day you stopped appreciating the sublimely silly things in life was the day you became a dried-up old turd.

Neighbors were divided on the question of whether Mrs. Braden had been excessive in her reaction. Witnesses agreed that Jesse had been a prodigious sinner, and often conducted himself in a manner that invited homicide. The shooting itself was not so much at issue as Mrs. Braden's selection of anatomical targets. The men in the crowd, sober and otherwise, felt that the mere spilling of an alcoholic beverage--and subsequent insensitive laughter--failed to justify three bullets through the penis.

MarkBaynard: You know what they say- dying is easy; comedy is hard.

loved to go and make fun of the homecoming

It's more habit than stupidity when I laugh at these things. I laugh at them to stay a sane man.

It was insanity, all of it hopeless, and there was nothing for it but to stare it down and laugh in its face. You did what you had to in a situation like this one. You did what your heart and your sense of right and wrong told you was needed.

An English Evangelical bishop wrote in 1991 that clear signs of Satanic possession included inappropriate laughter, inexplicable knowledge, a false smile, Scottish ancestry, relatives who have been coal miners, and the habitual choice of black for dress or car colour. None of this makes sense, but then that's how it is with evil. The less sense it makes, the more evil it is.

Quando os espetadores de uma comédia riem às gargalhadas, estão a responder a uma situação no palco, mas também à boa-disposição uns dos outros, deleitando-se com essa solidariedade de som e com a fraternidade momentânea que ela fomenta.

Cara burst into a hearty laugh. She clapped Richard on the back as he walked passed. I like her, Lord Rahl. You may keep her.

I thought I was going to die there, alone. I thought I would never see you again. He seemed to shake off the memory and leaned back on an elbow, gazing at her with a lop-sided smile on his face. The Shadrin left some scars that aren't healed yet. But I would have to take off my pants to show them to you. Really? Kahlan gave a throaty laugh. I think I better have a look... to see if everything is all right.

The chicken thing let out a whispering cackle.

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

They didn't know why these things were funny. Sometimes you laugh because you've got no more room for crying. Sometimes you laugh because table manners on a beach are funny. And sometimes you laugh because you're alive, when you really shouldn't be.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants? YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

They didn't have to be funny — they were father jokes.

I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence of good. I think there is more to this theory, but I tend to burst out laughing at this point.

No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The point of clowns was that, after watching them, anything else that happened seemed enjoyable.

Hilta laughed like someone who had thought hard about Life and had seen the joke.

I notice you didn't laugh, Mr. Black!' 'No, Your Majesty. We are forbidden to laugh at the things kings say, sire, because otherwise we would be at it all day.

What sort of person, said Salzella patiently, sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man.

I WAS NOT EXPECTING A NAC MAC FEEGLE TODAY, said Death. OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE WORN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING, HA HA.