Quotes About Laughter

Since comedy encourages the audience to suspend disbelief, humorists can take advantage of every opportunity to stretch the truth. In other circumstances, unmitigated exaggeration would be viewed as lying. In humor, clever exaggeration is rewarded with laughter.

Humor is more than entertainment or joke telling—it's a powerful social lubricant that eases and enriches communication, interpersonal relations, and education. Humor is a universal speech opener because it immediately earns the speaker respectful attention. It's psychologically impossible to hate someone with whom you've laughed. When we laugh, we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh. —Robert Orben

The language-based portion of the brain (the left frontal cortex) "gets" the joke by recognizing the ambiguity, incongruity, and surprise of the humor. The emotional areas of the brain (such as the amygdala) appreciate the humor and trigger laughter.

There is no happiness like the pounding of so many horses into one. I imagine I hear the horses laugh. I think it every time. I think that running is the way a horse may laugh out loud. When I am older I will believe that following in their wake has filled me with the inconsolable joy of animals.

how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?

how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love,

Awww, well, my young friend, how can you survive what life throws at you if you cannot laugh and love, and are they not the same thing?

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. The moment it arises, all your irritations and resentments slip away, and the sunny spirit takes their place.

Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

I have had a "call" to literature, of a low order—i.e. humorous. It is nothing to be proud of, but it is my strongest suit… seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God's creatures.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

There should be more sincerity and heart in human relations, more silence and simplicity in our interactions. Be rude when you're angry, laugh when something is funny, and answer when you're asked.

A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.

I think being successful in comedy is being funny and making jokes - anything beyond that is the icing on the cake.

My friend "M" says the irony of being a zombie is that everything is funny, but you can't smile, because your lips have rotted off.

My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.

My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

I was born with a priceless gift, the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.

Billy Crystal knows how to make people laugh. He's got 30 years on stage... there's no telling him what's funny.

I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators.

Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.