Laughter Quotes

2173 Laughter quotes by 1292 unique authors

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the… — H. L. Mencken
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. — H. L. Mencken
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating. — Paul Merton
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. — Spike Milligan
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. — Wilson Mizner
Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval. — Thomas S. Monson
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always… — Baron de Montesquieu
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most… — Christopher Morley
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any… — Jason Mraz
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. — Iris Murdoch
A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers. — Kevin Nealon
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. — Bob Newhart
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. — Friedrich Nietzsche
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough,… — Richard M. Nixon
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. — Carroll O'Connor
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. — P.J. O'Rourke
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd… — P.J. O'Rourke
Older people shouldn't eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. — Robert Orben
I never smile unless I mean it. — Donny Osmond
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now. — Marie Osmond
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. — Jean Paul
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. — Jean Paul

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