Laughter Quotes

2173 Laughter quotes by 1292 unique authors

Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh. — Arthur Miller
The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams. — Desmond Morris
The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. — Hannah Arendt
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. — Edmond de Goncourt
A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh. — Sean O'Casey
Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing… — Sean O'Casey
Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls? — Maureen Howard
Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill -… — Patrice O'Neal
When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things… — Frederick Lenz
There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is… — Douglas Pagels
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. — Mary Anne Radmacher
There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. — Criss Jami
Every job from the heart is, ultimately, of equal value. The nurse injects the syringe; the writer slides the pen; the farmer plows the dirt;… — Criss Jami
Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don't laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions — Criss Jami
Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at… — Allison Pearson
If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he… — Vaclav Havel
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness. — Rod Parsley
Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's out of sight… — Robert H. Schuller
Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face… — John Elof Boodin
Whatever it is probably won't go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we're bending so… — Barbara Johnson
Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence. — Lord Byron
We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh. — George Meredith
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong. — W. E. B. Du Bois
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult… — James Fadiman

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