Quotes About Laughter

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

I do not believe in demons," I said, mostly to reassure myself that I had not, in fact, witnessed what I had seen. Churchill laughed. "I don't think he cares, old man.

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Whenever she grinned, her entire face appeared to crinkle.

Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat Risus. Hic Locus Est Ubi Mors Gaudet Succurrere Vitae. [Let idle talk be silenced. Let laughter be banished. Here is the place where Death delights to succour Life.]

You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.

When you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

I'll use you for my mirth, yea, for my laughter,When you are waspish.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter;Present mirth hath present laughter.What's to come is still unsure:In delay there lies no plenty;Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,Youth's a stuff will not endure.

At lovers' perjuries,They say, Jove laughs.

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad.

A merrier man,Within the limit of becoming mirth,I never spent an hour's talk withal.

It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest forever.