Laughter Quotes

• You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

  

  Horace
  • Happiness
  • Laughter
  • Traverse

• I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

  

  Norval Morrisseau
  • People
  • Painting
  • Compassion

• Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Experience
  • Face
  • Wrinkles

• There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.

  

  Richard Pryor
  • Laughter
  • Lines

• A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

  

  Emily Mitchell
  • Laughter
  • Darkness
  • Find A Way

• There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good.

  

  Gardner C. Taylor
  • Purpose
  • Confidence
  • Gratitude

• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Happiness
  • Humor
  • Laughter

• To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Soul
  • Moving
  • Impossible

• The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Gospel

• There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

  

  William Osler
  • Life
  • Children
  • Spring

• Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on 'canned' laughter, grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Comedy
  • Audience
  • Situation

• If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Death
  • Friend
  • Broken

• Feeding off each other, magnified by the knowledge that the laughter was so inappropriate, their mirth was uncontrollable.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Knowledge
  • Laughter
  • Mirth

• Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• An expert is a man who tells you a simple thing in a confused way in such a fashion as to make you think the confusion is your own fault.

  

  William Castle
  • Thinking
  • Simple
  • Confusion

• Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail.

  

  Anne Wilson Schaef
  • Body
  • Human
  • Laughter

• Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Laughter
  • Folks
  • Nerves

• Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

  

  Mort Walker
  • Laughter

• Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Joy
  • Judge
  • Sadness

• Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.

  

  Annie Fellows
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Sometimes

• I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Old
  • Anger
  • Revelation

• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Horse
  • Sorry
  • Laughter

• While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Spirit
  • Laughter
  • Harmony

• It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Laughter

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