Quotes About Laughter

We laughed at the same things, and we liked the same things. What more is needed for agreeable society?

a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.

It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

Good grief. If we can't laugh at ourselves, and at one another, in good spirit and without malice, then what fun can be left? If we must withhold all ribbing in the name of protecting everyone's feelings, then we truly are a toothless society. We will reach what I call "the lowest common denominator of butthurt.

Methinks I see the wanton hours flee, And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectual translations of this laughter, since my slavery would commrnce from that point on.

Eroticism is the brink of the abyss. I'm leaning out over deranged horror (at this point my eyes roll back in my head). The abyss is the foundation of the possible. We're brought to the edge of the same abyss by uncontrolled laughter or ecstasy. From this comes a "questioning" of everything possible. This is the stage of rupture, of letting go of things, of looking forward to death.

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends, so naturally parties—particularly the more flamboyant ones—became red-letter days, preceded by endless preparations. Even when they were successfully over, they provided days of delightfully acrimonious argument as to how they could have been better managed.

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends, so naturally parties – particularly the more flamboyant ones – became red-letter days, preceded by endless preparations.

There is an Anglo-Saxon form of riddling that plays with the polarities of words like bright and dark, cold and warm, throwing them against one another and crafting lines of rich, humorous nonsense like this poem that has been around for so many hundreds of years that you just have to sit back and, with nothing else in mind, laugh out loud. 

Improving your lymphatic flow relates to the foods you eat, how you exercise and relax, saunas, laughter, and even spirituality.

Survival requires that we learn to laugh things off and start over

And her laughter was like the wind, the water, and a thousand songbirds singing together.

Es indispensable tomar las cosas más a la ligera, eliminar el dramatismo y optar por la felicidad; crear un ambiente familiar lleno de risas, diversión y un poco de la simple trivialidad cotidiana de la vida.

Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?

I don't know what humor is.

If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them, Why can't he recall, with equal skill, All the times he told them!

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.