Quotes About Laughter

But there's no doubt that children have an innate sense of humor. No matter how young they are, they always know when something's really funny.

Stay the night, said the officer, patting a confiscated couch. I'll keep my hands off you. I promise. You have more than hands, said Elie. My feet are safe, too, said the officer. He pointed to a hole in his boots, and they laughed.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

But there is another conclusion: to laugh at logic if it runs counter to the interests of men.

Even though laughter is still the sign of force, of the breaking out of blind and obdurate nature, it also contains the opposite element - the fact that through laughter blind nature becomes aware of itself as it is, and thereby surrenders itself to the power of destruction.

Only a man with a heart of stone could read of the death of Little Nell without laughing.' Oscar Wilde

Because our hearts are frivolous and because we ignore our faults we never discover the sickness in our souls, but idly we laugh when we have full reason to weep.

This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.

Black Tragedy lets slip her grim disguise and shows you laughing lips and roguish eyes; but when, unmasked, gay Comedy appears, how wan her cheeks are, and what heavy tears!

There ought to be laughter in love. But there also ought to be wonder.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

So blended and intertwisted in this life are occasions of laughter and of tears

What 'my lord' said, and what 'my lord' did, how useful he was in parliament, and how indispensable at Oxford, formed the daily burden of her talk. All this I bore very well: for I was too good-natured to laugh in any body's face, and I could make an ample allowance for the garrulity of an old servant.

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

I think sometimes life can take over, it's good just to appreciate one another - have fun together, smile, laugh, shout, scream at each other for being naughty!

I'd love to do a comedy - something where a character has to use humor to navigate the absurdities of life.

Even when I was in high school and the Navy, I was the guy who could rip somebody, and they'd laugh at it.

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.