Quotes About Laughter

If I had no sense of humor, I should long ago have committed suicide.

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a million pieces, and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

Oh, I love to see a man with a cigar. It reminds me of my grandfather. Morning to night, he used to sit with a great big stogie dangling from his lips. Oh, the hours we kids used to spend sitting on his lap, playing with the yellow whiskers beneath his nose. Then he'd take out his teeth with the cigar still in them and chase us around the room! We'd all laugh and laugh . . . then suddenly Grampa's mood would change, and we'd all have to run for our lives. . . . You can't buy memories like that.

There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter, and the love of friends.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.

If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Humour is just another defence against the universe.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.