Laughter Quotes

2173 Laughter quotes by 1292 unique authors

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity. — Jim Butcher
Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls… — Patricia McCormick
You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry — Craig Ferguson
He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of… — Charles Dickens
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter — Charles Bukowski
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. — Thomas Paine
Isn't it only laughter we can stay human? — James Clavell
The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains… — Sarah Rees Brennan
There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms.… — Lisa Kleypas
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really… — Leo Tolstoy
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or… — George Orwell
I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter. — Christopher Reeve
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. — Edward Abbey
The only real laughter comes from despair. — Groucho Marx
What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? — Soren Kierkegaard
Laughter is a force for democracy. — John Cleese
If the phone doesn't ring, it's me. — Jimmy Buffett
Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently. — Gretchen Rubin
To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness. — Malcolm Forbes
I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak.… — Charlaine Harris
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. — Ambrose Bierce
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. — Erma Bombeck
She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her… — Oscar Wilde
Once again Erak bellowed with laughter. "Your master here went nearly the same shade of green as his cloak," he told Will. Halt raised an… — John Flanagan
It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .… — Marilynne Robinson

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