Laughter Quotes

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom.

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

To laugh is proper to man.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.

I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it.

A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

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.

I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.

Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.

Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.