Quotes About Laughter

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.

That was one of my dad's greatest gifts, as well as one of the greatest characteristics of the English, they find things funny quickly. My dad would say, 'There is nothing so terrible that can't be laughed at.

When a comedy was on in our apartment, everything was better. Somehow, even the apartment smelled better.

I began to think a joke was not truly good unless someone got hit for telling it.

I'll tell you one thing. Being with you keeps a girl fit.' The Doctor beamed breathlessly at her. 'Fun to be with and good for you. Gotta be just what the doctor ordered.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

You're a fool," she said, laughing, "but you are my fool.

the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

That's what she said.

Playful arguments would become fits of uncontrollable laughter, and, like magic, that experience would be crystallized into a private joke, and the private joke would get boiled down to a simple phrase, which became a souvenir of the entire experience. For years to come, the phrase alone could uncork hours of renewed laughter. And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

With my friends, the sad truth is that our best "best friend" days are behind us. In college, we used to be able to meet each other in the common area of our off-campus housing, excited about our evening ahead, which consisted of someone making an enormous tureen of pasta and drinking wine from a box while we took turns regaling each other with details of our terrible love lives.

And as everyone knows, the best kind of laughter is laughter born of a shared memory.

Playful arguments would become fits of uncontrollable laughter, and, like magic, that experience would be crystallized into a private joke, and the private joke would get boiled down to a simple phrase, which became a

I laughed because, as everyone knows, laughing is a great way to disguise heavy breathing.

Life is pure farce from beginning to end, with a little black comedy thrown in for shade. If it was anything else, mankind would have stuck his collective head in the gas oyen years ago. No one could tolerate seventy years of tragedy. When I die - probably of cancer - Jane has prornised to put on my tombstone: "Here lies Anne Cattrell who laughed her way through it. The joke was on her but at least she knew it." (The Ice House)

And so our reunion was like countless others: the tear of joy were mixed with tears of sorrows, the laughing merging with the weeping. For every one of us who rejoiced at finding a loved one alive, there was someone else who mourned the dead. And those who had survived often had taken the place of someone more worthy who had die.

To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will.

Fun is the glue of love.