Quotes About Laughter

Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:

And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.

Invinge durerea, razi cat se poate, caci tot la zi ajunge si cea mai lunga noapte...

My love to love is love but to disgrace it, For I have heard it is a life in death, That laughs and weeps, and all but with a breath.

Now could thou and I rob the thieves and go merrily to London, it would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.

If you can mock a leek, you can eat a leek!

I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80   ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; Youth's a stuff will not endure.

When Mr Bird had written his will and had read it over he became aware that he was laughing. He heard the sound for some time, a minute or a minute and a quarter, and then he recognized its source and wondered why he was laughing like that, such a quiet, slurping sound, like the lapping of water.

Fill your tall goblets with white wine and red, And sing brave songs of gallant love and true, Wearing soft robes of emerald and blue, And dance, as I your dances oft have led, And laugh, as I have often laughed with you - And be most merry - after I am dead.

Ormai quasi sempre le discussioni tra di loro finivano con una risata, la grazia inconfondibile che alleggeriva la loro unione.

Quando gettò indietro la testa per bere, incontrò gli occhi di Demelza Carne, immensi e scuri, che lo stavano fissando dall'ultimo ripiano del mobile. Ross ruggì una risata che fece rientrare Prudie di corsa nella stanza.

Uno starnuto attirò l'attenzione di Ross, che spostò lo sguardo e vide Demelza attraversare il cortile con una pila di ciocchi nel grembiule. Stava piovendo e lei non aveva il cappello. Alle sue spalle, Garrick, che crescendo era diventato alto e sgraziato, saltellava come un barboncino, nero, senza coda e con chiazze di pelo riccio. Ross fu sul punto di scoppiare a ridere.

Ross?» «Sì, fiorellino?» «Ancora fiorellino» disse lei. «Stasera sono stata un bocciolo e un fiorellino. Spero che tra qualche anno non comincino a chiamarmi baccello.» Lui rise a bassa voce ma a lungo.

A joke is a very serious thing.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Harper saw a dark young guy, trying to stop from laughing so much. By some trick of perspective the tracers illuminated Sam's profile with a halo of fireflies. Something about him touched Harper, so that long after the gunship had swung low and away Sam's image remained on his retina.

You know what my philosophy of life is? That it's important to have some laughs, but you got to suffer a little too, because otherwise you miss the whole point to life.

We laughed over it, and Hemingway punched me in the mouth.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose..

How to make God laugh. Tell him your future plans.

For the written record in this personal document, let me simply say to me, Groucho Marx, W. C. Fields, and Elaine May are indisputably funny, with S.J. Perelman the funniest human of my time on earth.

You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.

Quieres reírte de mí? Cuando alguien me decía: Thank you, yo contestaba: Of nothing.