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Quotes About Laughter

They laugh that win.
~ William Shakespeare
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,That fools should be so deep-contemplative,And I did laugh sans intermissionAn hour by his dial.
~ William Shakespeare
Laugh yourselves into stitches.
~ William Shakespeare
From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth.
~ William Shakespeare
That's the humor of it.
~ William Shakespeare
To purge melancholy.
~ William Shakespeare
The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.
~ William Shakespeare
Very tragical mirth.
~ William Shakespeare
I shall laugh myself to death.
~ William Shakespeare
You need to be silly to be funny.
~ William Shatner
Name the different types of laughter that are available to us and that's what life is all about.
~ William Shatner
Our Story" Remind me again—together we trace our strange journey, find each other, come on laughing. Some time we'll cross where life ends. We'll both look back as far as forever, that first day. I'll touch you—a new world then. Stars will move a different way. We'll both end. We'll both begin. Remind me again.
~ William Stafford
Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch, Pay attention to this witch. A donkey takes you to a knight -- Him you conquer in a fight. Then you wed a princess who Is even uglier than you. Ha ha ha and cockadoodle, The magic words are 'Apple Strudel
~ William Steig
The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.
~ William Temple
could have laugh'd myself to scorn, to find   In that decrepit Man so firm a mind.
~ William Wordsworth
What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.
~ William Zinsser
On another memorable hunt, a lone mallard came in. Jase told Phil, "Let's let Willie take this one." Now, I know why he said it. Jase was convinced I would raise my gun and miss. Well, I raised my gun and folded it. Phil looked at Jase and said, "Ol' Willie's been practicing." We laughed and talked about my shot the entire morning.
~ Willie Robertson
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
~ Wilson Mizner
Laughter abounds in the mouths of fools.
~ Wisdom Proverb
Leck mich im Arsch! Laßt uns froh sein! Murren ist vergebens! Knurren, Brummen ist vergebens, ist das wahre Kreuz des Lebens, das Brummen ist vergebens, Knurren, Brummen ist vergebens, vergebens! Drum laßt uns froh und fröhlich, froh sein!
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things -- because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself.
~ Woody Allen
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out my nose.
~ Woody Allen
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
~ Woody Allen
I like poems where you don't really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
~ X.J. Kennedy