Stan Smith (Stanley Roger Smith) Quotes

Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

Stan Smith

• Laughter
• Infectious

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• Laughter made you live better and longer.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Live
  • Better
  • Laughter

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Person
  • Being
  • Laughter

• Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Life
  • Laughter
  • Pressure

• I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Power
  • Laughter
  • Horror

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• The highest state is laughter.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Laughter
  • State
  • Highest

• I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Think
  • Know
  • Laughter

• Laughter drives shouting away.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Laughter
  • Away
  • Shouting

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Love
  • Dark
  • Laughter

• I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Time
  • Good
  • Believe

• Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • World
  • America
  • Night

• A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.

  

  Maimonides
  • Great
  • Live
  • Desire

• Life is a jest;Take the delight of it.Laughter is best;Sing through the night of it.Swiftly the tearAnd the hurt and the ache of itFind us down here;Life must be what we make of it.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • Life
  • Night
  • Hurt

• Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Die

• I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Laughter

• More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Up
  • Truth

• I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

  

  Leah Remini
  • People
  • Trying
  • Remember

• If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

  

  Denis Norden
  • Laughter

• A trembling and some laughter, / a squirt of pee, a spit, / whispers of the heart, / a smell, / the drift to sleep, / pursuit by Gods, / exposure of the bum, / mathematics ...

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Heart
  • Sleep
  • Laughter

• One of the things we're taught as actors is restraint - don't jump off the cliff.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Jump
  • Restraint
  • Cliff

• I think there might even come a time when I would read Virgil again. Ovid's Metamorphoses, perhaps, not because the music goes round and round and never comes out, but because it's an extraordinary picture of ceaseless change that never comes to an end.

  

  William Golding
  • Thinking
  • Extraordinary
  • Metamorphosis

• Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

  

  Stan Smith
  • Laughter
  • Infectious