Quotes About Laughter

The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man, help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces; let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored, and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

So get a few laughs and do the best you can.

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Life is about enjoying yourself and having a good time.

Take time every day to do something silly.

I'd like to tell you some jokes now, but you'd only laugh.

It has been discovered experimentally that you can draw laughter from an audience anywhere in the world, of any class or race, simply by walking on a stage and uttering the words "I am a married man."

Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh, well, I think of my sex life.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

A rich man's joke is always funny.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

What is success? To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty; To find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived; That is to have succeeded.

A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you mad if it happened to you.

A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.

Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain, - Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Hooting and hollering, the crowd reliably responded as if that were the height of humor, while Herman slapped me on the back and nearly fell off his gunnysack seat guffawing and I laughed as hard as if I hadn't heard that mossy joke at every rodeo I had ever been to. Life can tickle you in the ribs surprisingly when it's not digging its thumb in.

I think I've just lost five pounds in fear sweat. Peabody mopped at her face. Now I want a cannoli. I don't know why. With a laugh, Roarke shifted to grin at her. I'll buy you a dozen, precious. Cannolis, for God's sake.

She heard a trill of laughter float down the hall, lifted a brow. Company? Indeed. With his disapproving eye, Summerset scanned her wilted shirt and slacks, skimmed over the weapon harness still strapped to her side. I suggest you bathe and change before meeting your guests. I suggest you kiss my ass, she said cheerfully and strolled by him.

Are you okay? I don't know. I have to think about it. Her head was still spinning. We're on the lawn, she said slowly. Our clothes are torn. I'm pretty sure I have the imprint of your fingers dented into my butt. I did my best, he murmured. She snickered first, then chuckled, then broke into fits of giddy, hiccupping laughter. Jesus, Roarke, Jesus Christ, look at us. In a minute. I think I'm still partially blind.