Laughter Quotes · Page 75

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

— Lawrence Durrell

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

— David Sedaris

Laugh at sorrow, it fades away, but do not laugh too hard lest sorrow stay to party.

— Trinity Chasara

I'm smiling through my tears, laughing through my pain :'(

— Rachel

Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

— Maya Angelou

“Sorry. Did you know you giggle in your sleep, by the way?’ ‘Really? How adorable of me.”

— Gemma Burgess

If I had a sense of humor, I'd be laughing right now.

— Christine Feehan

“Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.”

— Sharon E. Rainey

Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

— Richard Mitchell

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Oh! That is funny.' And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter which annoyed me no end. I like…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the…

— Hugh Sidey

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

— Bill Maher

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

— Carol Burnett

For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe…

— Jerry Lewis

I don't tend to read much comedy, but there's a fake advertisement section at the end of Derren Brown's book 'Pure Effect'…

— Nick Mohammed

As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if…

— Celia Thaxter

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the…

— Charles Bukowski

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was…

— Reif Larsen

I think of everything as comedy, but I don't think of it in terms of sitcom comedy, I think of it in…

— Jeffrey Tambor

“...You see I believe in that stuff to: yoga and mystical powers. I once knew a man who could kill himself on…

— Roman Payne

“Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two…

— Plato

“Which made me laugh, of course. If you ever want to get truly hysterical, just get really, really scared, and then have…

— Kristen D. Randle

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter…

— Pat Conroy

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

— Golda Meir

“And yet you thought he was the one? Imagine a lifetime without laughter.”

— Anna Bell

Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.

— Jane Wagner

It's almost a way of life. I know what makes me laugh.

— Julian Clary

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

— Pat Nixon

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

— Anonymous

I don't ever want to police people's laughter. People laugh for all different kinds of reasons.

— Cord Jefferson

If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.

— Azim Premji

“If you want God to laugh, tell Him you've found Him a wife.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'.

— Kin Hubbard

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

— Peter J. Carroll

Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.

— Leigh Bardugo

Laughter is timeless imagination hasn't age and are dreams are forever.

— Simpleman

April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears.

— William Watson

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“Do not laugh too much at your fellows. Those whom you cannot love you should, rather, fear.”

— Umberto Eco