Laughter Quotes - page 3

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter. (Max Beerbohm)
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. View quote
Mason Cooley
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. View quote
William Shakespeare
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. View quote
Mark Twain
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. View quote
Martha Beck
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die. But there's a joy and an abundance of everything, like information and laughter and summer weather and so many stories. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
I just love listening to the laughter. View quote
Simon Pegg
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter. View quote
Hubert Selby Jr.
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. (Bill Cosby)
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. View quote
Bill Cosby
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head. View quote
Allison Pearson
Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful. View quote
Lynsay Sands
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. View quote
Joan Lunden
Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter. View quote
Ivor Novello
I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. View quote
Tahar Ben Jelloun
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key. View quote
Yakov Smirnoff
The only real laughter comes from despair. View quote
Groucho Marx
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts, and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can't be judged only by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes only response to pain. View quote
Bill Clinton
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it. (James Thurber)
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice. View quote
William Hazlitt
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. View quote
George Eliot
In my own prejudice ... I would have of a poet ... whose worlds would not be too esoteric ... fond of talking ... capable of pity and laughter ... appreciative of women ... involved in personal relationships ... susceptible to physical impressions... View quote
Louis MacNeice
Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations. View quote
Norman Cousins