Quotes About Laughter

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Get all the good laughs you can.

Hij lachte over de mislukkingen die ik hem vertelde. Maar hij lachte mij niet uit. Nee, eerder lachte hij, zoals iemand lacht over fouten die hij zelf lang geleden, begaan heeft, met nog wel wat verdriet omdat hij gefaald heeft, maar ook voldoening omdat hij ze overwon, of van geen belang meer acht.

To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Seneca, I am certain, was right when he pointed to laughter as the proper response to "the things which drive us to tears."2 Seneca also observes that "he shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter than he who does not restrain his tears, since the laughter gives expression to the mildest of the emotions, and deems that there is nothing important, nothing serious, nor wretched either, in the whole outfit of life.

The Stoics, as we have seen, recommend that we use humor to deflect insults: Cato cracked a joke when someone spit in his face, as did Socrates when someone boxed his ears. Seneca suggests that besides being an effective response to an insult, humor can be used to prevent ourselves from becoming angry: "Laughter," he says, "and a lot of it, is the right response to the things which drive us to tears!

Piping down the valleys wild,Piping songs of pleasant glee,On a cloud I saw a child,And he laughing said to me:"Pipe a song about a Lamb."So I piped with merry cheer;"Piper, pipe that song again."So I piped; he wept to hear.

He loves to sit and hear me sing,Then, laughing, sports and plays with me;Then stretches out my golden wing,And mocks my loss of liberty.

When the voices of children are heard on the greenAnd laughing is heard on the hill,My heart is at rest within my breastAnd everything else is still.

We talked filth for a pleasant half hour.

nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.

See you in the funny papers.' Johnny Eager From all Johnny Eager - Private Eye books Johnny's favorite saying

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

This breastplate of righteousness is of so base an ac count with them, that they who wear it in their daily conversation do make themselves no less ridiculous to them than if they came forth in a fool's coat, or were clad in a dress contrived on purpose to move laughter.