Quotes on Laughter

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

The fine line between roaring with laughter and crying because it's a disaster is a very, very fine line. You see a chap slip on a banana skin in the street and you roar with laughter when he falls slap on his backside. If in doing so you suddenly see he's broken a leg, you very quickly stop laughing and it's not a joke anymore.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path. Enjoy the flowers that are there for your pleasure. Tune in to the sunrise, the little children, the laughter, the rain, and the birds. Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter.

Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.