Laughter Quotes

I laugh because your pain is amusing.

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.

Stephen Richards

He laughs best who laughs last.

Old English Proverb

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

Honoré de Balzac

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

Pierre Beaumarchais

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot so is the laughter of a fool.

Bible

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

Charles C. Grevvile

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Catullus

Monkeying around with other apes, a monkey was made - called, HUMAN. God is great!

Fakeer Ishavardas

Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes.

Fakeer Ishavardas

I have to tell you the truth. But you are too ugly for it.

Fakeer Ishavardas

People will laugh at anything, except their own moronic self.

Fakeer Ishavardas

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.

Rebecah McManus

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

Shannon Dittemore

...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I'm a sucker for a man who giggles—not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

George MacDonald

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Robertson Davies

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Langston Hughes

Maturity,” Bokonontells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

At home I used to spend calm, pleasant nights with my family. My mother knit scarves for the neighborhood kids. My father helped Caleb with his homework. There was a fire in the fireplace and peace in my heart, as I was doing exactly what I was supposed to be doing, and everything was quiet. I have never been carried around by a large boy, or laughed until my stomach hurt at the dinner table, or listened to the clamor of a hundred people all talking at once. Peace is restrained; this is free.

She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.

Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.

The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter.

Timothy Hallinan

Italians make you laugh and break your heart.

The only people for me are the ones who spill things, the ones who drop their cups sometimes, the ones who get dirty hands and messy hair, the ones who can go barefoot if they feel like it, the people who forget things, and can laugh at themselves every day...

But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, " I think it's nice. If they're laughing now, they'll probably be laughing forever.

Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

Her melodious laughter sounded like the distant tinkling of soft bells and he stored the sound in her temple- his heart.

The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

Cherie Carter-Scott

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.

Zora Neale Hurston

Deep, hearty, clean and compassionate laughter is vitamin-tastic fuel for the soul.

Ethel Russell-Ajisomo

They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, it’s free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.

Ian's eyes settled on him, his expression grim. He bypassed everything, coming to a stop in front of the nervous young male. “I want all of your medicines to relieve fever, including liquids and capsules. Plus, I want a thermometer, the best one you have, and make sure it's not rectal.” He narrowed his eyes at the wide-eyed clerk in front of him. “I don't do rectal, and I won't use anything that involves an ass.

Four laughs vibrate in harmony,WarmDeliciousReal.

Stasia Ward Kehoe

Naomi giggled that same giggle with which Enoch had become infatuated.

S.R. Ford

Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.

Yet the best determining factor of how comfortable we are with ourselves, is our ability to laugh at ourselves.

Laughter is a tranquilizer without after-effects.

I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.

Religious people are not fun... So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He's fun... God's a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to parties and the religious people don't.

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

And then he began to laugh in a peculiar way of his own which was both violent and soundless. His heavy reclining body, draped in its black gown, heaved to and fro. His knees drew themselves up to his chin. His arms dangled over the sides of the chair and were helpless. His head rolled from side to side. It was as though he were in the last stages of strychnine poisoning. But no sound came, nor did his mouth even open. Gradually the spasm grew weaker, and when the natural sand colour of his face had returned (for his corked-up laughter had turned it dark red) he began his smoking again in earnest.

Eve hugged him and whispered in his ear, "Careful. I'm fatal." He needed to remember that warning.He whispered back, holding her hair so she couldn’t squirm away, “Jesus. It’s like you said that directly to my balls.”She laughed so hard at his unexpected reply.

Debra Anastasia

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter and sometimes a little mad, for it is the laugh under the mask of tragedy, and also the laughter that masks tears. They are the same. It is the laughter of people who value love and friendship and plenty, who have lived with terror and death and hate." - , Return to Laughter (1954)

Elenore Smith Bowen

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

Many things have been compared to a brick, mainly as a tribute to their intellect or to their aerodynamic characteristics.

Her laughter changed her voice from wind chimes to the jingling of sleigh bells.

Anything that makes you laugh, giggle or smile.. Do it again..

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

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