Quotes on Laughter

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

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

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.