Quotes About Laughter

To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

We see them oiling their weapons to kill the gryphon they think is hiding in our hen coop. And we cannot help laughing.

Conversation was strictly limited to functional needs and 'scurrilous and shameful words' and laughter were altogether prohibited, regulations especially relevant to a recurring theme in the Rule: the need to avoid displays of anger, malice, or grumbling, or reminiscences about past sexual conquests. 'Every idle word is known to generate sin.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

it any wonder I preferred the laughter of his house to the dignified silence of my own?

As I put together the wolf was Jeffrey, I gasped. "Holy crap. You so can totally lick your own butt!

The yelp that came from Elis was one not normally heard outside of anyone who had gone through puberty. "What the…?" Austin laughed—right up until Burgess scurried onto him, making his way to Austin's shoulder. He then yanked on Austin's hair. Try as I might, I couldn't recall a time in my life when I'd seen someone look more horrified. Austin came closer to me, yelping as he did. "Get it off me!

Norma Shearer: Mas si por miedo has de buscar en el Amor sólo paz y placer, entonces mejor será que pases de largo por su umbral, rumbo al mundo sin inviernos ni primaveras ni veranos, donde reirás, pero no a carcajadas, y llorarás, pero no todas tus lágrimas.

Vaya por Dios! Se avecina una buena tormenta. Fina volvió a la sala. Esta vez fue derecha a la llave de la luz y encendió las lámparas sin preocuparse de la reacción de su marido. Pero el doctor Freire no hizo ningún comentario. Dijo: «¿Has oído, Fina? Los ratones andan por el desván». De inmediato, tradujo literalmente la frase al inglés. El doctor Kimball hizo un gesto de entender el significado. Los ratones. Los truenos. Rieron.

Perhaps one of the truths that Dante is trying to convey to us in this passage is that we can only ascend into the joy of God when we lighten up; when we can look down and smile upon our foolishness. Chesterton once said that the devil cannot laugh at himself and that he fell from heaven because of his gravity and that angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Arrive-t-il un moment de la vie où le bonheur est passé, où l'on n'attend plus rien ? Est-ce cela que vieillir ? Lorsque aujourd'hui ne parle que d'hier, quand le présent n'est plus qu'un trait de nostalgie que l'on cache pudiquement par des éclats de rire ?

Demain est un mystère, pour tout le monde, et ce mystère doit provoquer le rire et l'envie, pas la peur ou le refus.

You know what you have to do to win an Oscar these days? Play a character who's lost an arm, or a leg, or a mother, or a father, or preferably all of the above. Make it miserable and squalid and base, so people will cry their eyes out and call you a genius, but if you inspire people or make them laugh? You're not even under consideration when awards season rolls around. I'm sick of this cultural hegemony of depression.

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

Lorsque, bien plus tard, au lycée, M. Laplane nous enseigna que la chouette était l'oiseau de Minerve, et qu'elle représentait la sagesse, je fis un si grand éclat de rire qu'il me fallut copier, jusqu'au gérondif, quatre verbes qui, de plus, étaient déponents.

I remained serious. For one thing, I thought it stupid of her to appear to believe or to wish other people to believe that nobody, really, was as smart as herself. For another thing, people who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

Or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. John Milton, Paradise Lost viii 75-78

But the laughter was like a water bug on a pond, skating across the surface of his mind. He was amused and he laughed, but nothing was deeply funny; life was simply stupid most of the time.

That hadn't occurred to me," Lucas said. "Because you're not a natural politician," the governor said. He laughed again. "This is the kind of thing that makes life interesting." "Unless you're Dannon. Or Carver." "Well, yeah, I suppose," the governor said. "I'll assign somebody to say a prayer for them.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.