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Quotes About Laughter

when jay laughed his soul bird laughed with him. when jay rejoiced his soul bird rejoiced too
~ Ilchi Lee
El mar es] una inmensidad que no piensa. Sólo se mueve una, otra y otra vez. Y otra más. Año tras año, siglo tras siglo. Sí, majestuoso, pero siempre muere aquí, a los pies de quienes vienen a contemplarlo. Mañana será lo mismo. Y el día en que arrasa, mata y siembre la destrucción no sabe por qué lo hace. Si de sonidos se trata, prefiero la risa de un niño o el estertor de un anciano.
~ Unknown
Esa es la gran virtud de la infancia: han nacido para reír, para dejar de lado las desgracias y tornar a sus juegos y fantasías
~ Unknown
I gargled a laugh, but I'd never felt more like crying in my life. "I'm fine.
~ Ilsa J. Bick
It's easier, I guess, to laugh and joke and pretend that tomorrow won't be any different from any of the days before. Easier than trying to talk about how strange it is to be part of a family and still be all alone.
~ Ilyasah Shabazz
If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
~ Ina May Gaskin
Indeed, the Japanese have recourse to risibility whenever the frailties of human nature are put to severest test. I think we possess a better reason than Democritus himself for our Abderian tendency; for laughter with us oftenest veils an effort to regain balance of temper, when disturbed by any untoward circumstance. It is a counterpoise of sorrow or rage.
~ Inaz? Nitobe
I love to smile.
~ Inge de Bruijn
There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we were married. For the longest time it never crossed our minds that, like other people, we appear as man and wife wherever we go. This was a complete surprise for us, but we had no idea what to make of it. We laughed a lot.
~ Unknown
I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.
~ Ingrid Betancourt
Bradford watched her leave the stable. "Unusual woman. I feel quite intoxicated." He laughed. "But then I felt intoxicated before I met her, so it's difficult to judge.
~ Iris Johansen
Laughter is brightest, in the place here the food is.
~ Irish proverb
Laughter is brightest where food is best.
~ Irish proverb
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~ Irish proverb
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
~ Irish proverb
And sometimes somebody is laughing--and that laugh is stuffing all of yesterday's and today's anger back into the mouth that it's oozing from.
~ Unknown
And they would laugh at me. The dress was all sticking out around me and it was dark green with a pattern of animals with long tongues on it--and all the kids were laughing at me. And now I'm wearing a fur coat, and I'm in Berlin! And I would throw rocks at them and swear to myself that I would not be the kind that is laughed at, but that I would do the laughing.
~ Unknown
Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.
~ Isobelle Carmody
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
~ Isobelle Carmody
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
~ Isobelle Carmody
Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces.
~ Unknown
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
~ Izaak Walton
Well my biggest dream is to be in a romantic comedy.
~ Izabella Scorupco