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Quotes About Laughter

But then you met Dad in the drugstore." She laughed—not a happy laugh, exactly, but one you might use in talking about an embarrassing incident from your past.
~ George Bishop
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
~ George Burns
And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.
~ George Carlin
Ain't nothin' but a party!
~ George Clinton
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
~ George Eliot
His stuff . . . Oh. Ha! "In that case, it's hanging long!" Jack dissolved into giggles. "Long, get it?" "My brother, everyone." George bowed to an invisible crowd with a martyred expression. "A refined and sensitive creature.
~ Ilona Andrews
His T-shirt followed. Yep. Just like I thought. "Before you start dancing, we don't have any cash!" I called. "Woo!" Desandra waved her arms. "Take it off!
~ Ilona Andrews
She sighed. "Come on, then, wife. Put on a happy face." "Ugh." She reached over and slid her fingers into the crook of his elbow. "Good God, control yourself, woman. We're in public. At least wait until we're in the bedroom." "Your corpse will grow lovely goldenseal." He laughed again and walked her down to the smithy.
~ Ilona Andrews
I don't trust tragedies much. It's easy to make a person sad by showing him something tragic. We all recognize when sad things happen: someone dies, someone loses a loved one, young love is crushed. It's much harder to make a man laugh—what's funny to one person isn't funny to another.
~ Ilona Andrews
Cassida gifted you a lovely vintage Second Wave toaster for your collection," Matias said. What? Ramona turned to him. "You hacked them through a malignant toaster?" "Yes." She laughed.
~ Ilona Andrews
What are you thinking about?" she asked. "I'm picturing cutting your head off with these scissors." Elara laughed and walked out of the barracks.
~ Ilona Andrews
I loved that he called me on my bullshit. I laughed at his jokes and I loved that he laughed at mine. I loved that no matter where I was he would come for me. That he would always be there, helping me cut my way through the mess that was life.
~ Ilona Andrews
Arland shuddered. Helen giggled again, grabbed her mug, and hurled it at the wall. The mug shattered. I looked back. Helen's seat was empty. The platter of bacon had vanished. Sean lost it and laughed.
~ Ilona Andrews
He pressed the trigger again. The gun farted. A woman with a child in her cart looked at us. Sean's mouth slowly stretched into a smile. "Okay, fine." I sped toward the checkout. A fart. "Will you stop doing that?" Another fart. "Sean! What are you, five?" He laughed under his breath.
~ Ilona Andrews
You look . . . You look." I cracked up. "And whatever the hell that scent is from those flowers is driving me crazy." He took my crown off and looked at me. "Nope. Not the flowers.
~ Ilona Andrews
Ramona laughed. It sounded like a promise of murder.
~ Ilona Andrews
She laughed like a little silver bell.
~ Ilona Andrews
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
~ Immanuel Kant
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
~ Immanuel Kant
Das Lachen ist der Gesundheit zuträglich, denn es fördert die Verdauung.
~ Immanuel Kant
Hun likte å le, og hun syntes synd på folk - Dickens-siden ved deg, vesle mor, pleide han å si.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains.
~ Iris Murdoch
She thought sadly, gaiety and laughter are not in my destiny.
~ Iris Murdoch
Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humour. What's wrong with her? The knee–jerk thought: Wrong time of the' month is forming in his head when he looks about and picks up the intonations of the laughter around the bar. It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. How was ah tae know, he thinks. How the fuck was ah tae know?
~ Irvine Welsh