Quotes on Laughter

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

These two are the parts. The inner silence - the silence so deep that there is no vibration in your being. You are, but there are no waves. You are just a pool without waves, not a single wave arises. The whole being silent, still. Inside, at the center, silence, and on the periphery, celebration and laughter. And only silence can laugh, because only silence can understand the cosmic joke.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which we must be wakened, is the dream that all is well.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not pretend there is no danger . Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

A lot of sexism is just very silly... and the best response is laughter and ridicule.

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

It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.