Laughter Quotes

• To those waiting with bated breath for that favourite media catchphrase, the U-turn, I have only one thing to say: You turn if you want to. laughter The lady's not for turning.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Waiting
  • Laughter

• The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

  

  Edward Young
  • House
  • Laughter

• Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask. ... For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth. Other things may be illusions of the eye or the appetite, made to blind the one and cloy the other, but out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Sorrow

• Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

  

  Lady Margaret Sackville
  • Tragedy
  • Become
  • Haggard

• 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
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Interest

• Laughter does not please the mighty.

  

  Dario Fo
  • Laughter

• Within each of us there is an intense need to feel that we belong. This feeling of unity and togetherness comes through the warmth of a smile, a handshake, or a hug, through laughter and unspoken demonstrations of love. It comes in the quiet, reverent moments of soft conversation and in listening.

  

  William R. Bradford
  • Moments
  • Listening
  • Demonstration

• People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I love you, love your work.' And then the next sentence is, 'I loved your brother.' John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

  

  James Belushi
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Laughing

• This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • World
  • Wit

• If we couldn't laugh, we would all going to go insane.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Laughing
  • Ifs
  • Insane

• Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sweet
  • Tears
  • Laughter

• Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character.

  

  Kimberly Elise
  • Character
  • Free
  • Pain

• At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

  

  Jean Houston
  • Universe
  • Laughter

• Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.

  

  Burhan Sonmez
  • People
  • Oppression
  • Dictators

• And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • People
  • Laughter

• A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.

  

  Jenny Eclair
  • Good
  • Laughter

• Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

  

  Mort Walker
  • Heart
  • Joy
  • Brushes

• He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs (laughter).

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Faith
  • Forever
  • Laughter

• I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

  

  Loni Love
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

  

  Carol Channing
  • Important
  • Laughter

• 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
  • World
  • Earth
  • Alone

• I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • World
  • Believe
  • Nature

• People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

  

  Sid Caesar
  • People
  • Laughter
  • Thank

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