Quotes About Laughter

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

Laughter drives shouting away.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

I wanted to be the photographer of happiness.

Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.