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Quotes About Laughter

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.
~ Katherine Center
I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.
~ Jane Krakowski
I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.
~ Bertolt Brecht
My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?
~ Janis Joplin
For the most part, comedy is the only fair part of show business.
~ Chris Rock
I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
~ Patricia Clarkson
I have a ball - and it keeps my heart rate up. I get to wear fabulous clothes. I get to make people laugh. That's my core business, and that's where I'll always return.
~ Bette Midler
I laugh all the time - at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don't laugh onstage because then it's serious business.
~ Steven Wright
Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day.
~ Mahyar Mottahed
You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.
~ Ringo Starr
Laugh every chance you get. Laughter is sure to break the bonds of negativity that may be lurking about.
~ James Van Praagh
Os loucos são felizes, basta ver como se riem das coisas mais estúpidas que se possa imaginar. Riem felizes do voo de uma borboleta.
~ Unknown
Molière'S great comic villains are perfect butts for the humorist's lash.
~ Peter Gay
Nancy took her tiny little baby and held him down toward Norton. Look Norton, she said, This is a baby. Norton looked up at Charlie, took him in, and sort of nodded as if assimilating the information. There was a very long pause, and then I heard Nancy gulp. You've finally done it, she said to me. What? I wanted to know. Most mothers would have said, 'Look, Charlie, this is a cat.' I started to laugh. Not with Norton, I said.
~ Unknown
En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: «Un día iré contigo a ese restaurante; a esa costa viajaremos juntos la próxima vez». Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!
~ Peter Handke
In the living room, the consensus among the guests was that Scotty's looks favored his father, but the Judge was quick to disagree: 'He doesn't look a thing like me. He looks like an hors d'oeuvre.' Hearing this, Joan thought the following, and pledged it to herself, as both prayer and promise: You will be loved, Scotty Ocean. And while the guests laughed at the Judge's remark, Joan leaned over and softly whispered to her newborn son, 'You will be loved.
~ Peter Hedges
that the ones who laugh the loudest and the most are usually the shallowest and the most foolish? And that the wisest are usually the gravest? Perhaps the wise are grave because they remember the grave.
~ Peter Kreeft
She's hot and smart," Marco said. "So, you think she's hot, too?" Aly said. Daria turned to Marco with a smile. "Not hot. Is cool in the morning." I looked at the ground to avoid cracking up.
~ Peter Lerangis
Watson loved them sour kind of jokes, which I enjoyed myself. I mean, ain't life some kind of a sour joke? Might's well laugh, that's the way him and me seen it, whether nice folks seen the joke or not. One time when Watson caught me grinning along with him, he give a wink and lifted up his hat.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Memory is a notoriously biased and sentimental editor, selecting what it wants to keep and invariably making a few cosmetic changes to past events. With rose-colored hindsight, the good times become magical; the bad times fade and eventually disappear, leaving only a seductive blur of sunlit days and the laughter of friends. Was it really like that? Would it be like that again?
~ Peter Mayle
Made people laugh. Dennis had a way of making everybody lighten up when things were tense. How could you get down on yourself when there's this crazy guy on the team who had dyed his hair with a big yellow happy face?
~ Phil Jackson
She laughed merrily. "What can you do but laugh?
~ Unknown