Laughter Quotes
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.
Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
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.
Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.
Do you ever find yourself bursting into a sort of lunatic laughter at the sheer prettiness of things?
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
In comedy laughter settles all arguments.
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.
It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.
Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.
April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.
The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
