“How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
“Sister Evangelina shared this robust humour. Before an enema: “Now then, Dad, we’re going to put a squib up your arse, shake… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
I have never been a serious person… I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful,… — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
In addition to listening to the audience's laugh, you want to listen to their silence. Is it bored or interested silence? The… — Franklyn Ajaye Copy Share Image
“I believe in roses. And I believe in putting roses into a vase and sitting the vase on the table. I believe… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“My complaint is universal, and has been so through the ages, an excuse for jest and hilarious laughter from earliest times, until… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
Laughter is a most healthful exercise; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted; and the… — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland Copy Share Image
Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times.… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
“I run back to the peephole and see all three of them as they walk past with these things in their hands,… — M.B. Julien Copy Share Image
A wise man once sat in the audience and cracked a joke. All laughed like crazy. After a moment, he cracked the… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious.… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe that when I feel happy, that's… — Sui He Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“It’s midnight. I figure it will get light about six or seven, right? We can’t just run the Blazer all night.” He… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“...and with that he began to laugh, not a laugh either, but a cackle, a hideous cackle like a rooster with its… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A crack of a tree limb and falling foliage forced me to open my eyes. A tree fell right above my head,… — Brenda Pandos Copy Share Image
You were the rationale behind my smile, the rationale for my laughter and conjointly for the rationale for my happiness and you… — Unkown Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he'll chuckle at something, but rarely. Whenever somebody asks how come everybody's laughing at something and he isn't, Horst explains his… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“What the hell?” Ian asked, holding his hands over the front of his Christmas briefs. Sara had ordered them from the Internet,… — Rose Wynters Copy Share Image
I have always employed humor, and I think it’s absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Laughter, then, shows us the boundaries that language is too shy to make explicit. In this way, humor can be extremely useful… — Kevin Simler Copy Share Image
To be laughed at is no great hardship to me. I can delight in scoffs and jeers. Caricatures, lampoons, and slanders are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Then she laughed. It was almost a racking laugh. It shook her as the wind shakes a tree. I thought there was… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In times that are dark and God seems far [away], I look for him in small ways - the innocent laughter of… — Anne Marie Miller Copy Share Image
I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“But Hyacinth Bridgerton, who at ten should have known the least about kisses of anyone, just blinked thoughtfully, and said, “I think… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
Mere words will not do. They must convey the color, charm, and pulse of life. They must have a private twinkle of… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes ofa continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image