Laughter Quotes
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Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
George Gurdjieff
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Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing
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On my graduation there was a party by the junior students, and I was given a hair brush as a gift - if I take off my hat, you know what I mean.(laughter)
Hamid Karzai
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.
Mary Tyler Moore
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The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.
Vissarion Belinsky
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Voices were blended and intermingled in a tumultuous swirl around which eddied laughter, shouts, the squeaking of doors and windows, piano and accordion music, rollicking handclaps, a policeman's bark, braying, grunts, coughs of hashish addicts and screams of drunkards, anonymous calls for help, raps of a stick, and singing by individuals and groups.
Naguib Mahfouz
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.
Edward Young
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela
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Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
Bob Monkhouse
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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
James Thurber
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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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When you're with Chris Wylde, there's never not laughter.
David Anders
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When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess - we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop - let's get to work.
Barack Obama
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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.
Andrew Marr
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Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.
Steve Winwood
Blind Faith
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport... to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.
Frank Crowninshield
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You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.
Marlo Thomas
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I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.
Andy Dick
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The boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.
Mary Astor
