The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
We just lost our electricity. You want to tell me what’s so funny about that?” “It’s not exactly funny. It’s more of… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
People are a lot more tolerant when they're home watching TV and they're looking for a laugh. — Brad Hall Copy Share Image
“Laughter is the only thing that cuts trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.” — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller. — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“Happy is the woman who can laugh at herself. She will never cease to be amused.” — Charlene Vermeulen Copy Share Image
When you do comedy, the audience is not your boss. They are your collaborators and when you collaborate with someone you don't… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
“Your voice is the only alarm that I’ll actually wake up to. Your laugh is that one song they play way too… — Sy Stokes Ari Eastman Copy Share Image
People have to work to maintain happiness. It's easy to be miserable. It's easy to stay miserable. It's easy to live in… — Tituss Burgess Copy Share Image
You can say you're a liberal and everybody laughs and it's a good time. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
