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Quotes About Laughter

I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.
~ Greg Proops
I'm sorry," she said, still not turning to look at him. Then she laughed her sad laugh, and Jade realized how accustomed to it he had grown. He wondered how often she had laughed like that before she'd met him. "It feels like I'm doing that all the time now," she said. "Apologizing. More than I ever have." She finally turned to look at Jade. "Believe it or not, I usually have a difficult time with it.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Tony smiled broadly as he pushed past Jade and walked into the entranceway. "There's these two sperm swimming. And they're exhausted. They've been at it forever, seems like hours. Finally, one turns to the other and says, 'Hey! How much longer we got?' Other sperm looks back at him and says. 'Who you kidding? We just got past the esophagus!' " His laughter started as soon as he finished the joke.
~ Gregg Hurwitz
The women laugh a little. I do too. Though I'm only mimicking their laughter. Nothing is funny to me.
~ Gregg Olsen
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it.
~ Grey Livingston
I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.
~ Groucho Marx
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
~ Groucho Marx
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.
~ Groucho Marx
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
~ Groucho Marx
The only real laughter comes from despair.
~ Groucho Marx
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
~ Groucho Marx
Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you're probably watching the wrong channel.
~ Groucho Marx
I have had a wonderful time but this wasn't it.
~ Groucho Marx
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
~ Groucho Marx
From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
~ Groucho Marx
Humor is reason gone mad.
~ Groucho Marx
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
~ Groucho Marx
Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would never again be loved In the old days you would have turned monk With shame you catch yourself praying And jeer your laughter crackles like hellfire Its sparks gild the depths of your life Which like a painting in a dark museum You approach sometimes to peer at closely
~ Guillame Apollinaire
Mon verre s'est brisé comme un éclat de rire
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Mais riez riez de moi Hommes de partout surtout gens d'ici Car il y a tant de choses que je n'ose vous dire Tant de choses que vous ne me laisseriez pas dire Ayez pitié de moi.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
A luz que você tinha nos olhos. Sua gargalhada radiante. O equilíbrio perfeito de uma vida.
~ Guillaume Musso
Si quieres hacer reír a Dios, cuéntale tus planes». La calle enseña que no es Dios quien se ríe, sino el Diablo.
~ Guillermo Arriaga