Quotes About Laughter

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.

There's nothing quite so depressing as a man in a suit who's lost his sense of humor.

I'm a great believer in the power of laughter. I think it can bring people together, even when they disagree about everything else.

Being funny is a gift, and, when done well, is an art form.

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

I don't think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

All along the crystal cove the woven masks pace and pause from doorstep to doorstep. Shadows dance on the crest of the moon, as clouds, like dark bats, shift through the skies. The children in garments of glib disarray; the parents wear masks that won't fade away. Olive and amber, sea and sky; salt and sand go winding by. One can sense the cries of hovering birds, the laughter of children, and frost-bitten air.

all her mother's pains and benefits . . .'" She faltered, and I continued the Shakespeare for her. "'To laughter and contempt, that she may feel / How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child.

However, frat-boy humor is funny and it always will be.

If money makes the world go round, it's humor that keeps it from spinning out of control.

Her laugh. The way she smoked before she gave up. Smoke trickling up her nostrils. Spokes of smoke when she spoke.

All we wanted was the simplest things: to eat good food, to sleep at night, to smile, to laugh, to be well.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue they're called humorists.

nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

behind her out in their yard screeching and laughing. Their dad was yelling: "Don't eat the

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.

An angel and a beast. Luke laughed. Who would have thought it? I fucking did. And that's why he was the Lord of the Dark.

Although George was quieter than the others too, when it came to banter he could give as good as he got. Just when you thought he wasn't listening to one of John's wicked teases he'd shoot back a withering line that had everyone in stitches.

Outside, the rain was bucketing down. We ran along the street, laughing at the madness of it all, and burst into Reece's, where we had to queue for the set lunch of soup, chicken and trifle. Reece's had no licence so, when we finally got a table, we toasted ourselves with water. But we didn't care: we were on a high. A full church wedding with all the extras couldn't have made me happier.

the boys wanted someone they could have a laugh with, someone who shared their irreverent sense of humour.

To me, real humor is very serious. Mark Twain's humor in Huckleberry Finn is funny, but it's about very serious things. It's a deeper, richer laugh for me.