Laughter Quotes
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Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
Margaret Mead
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I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
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When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.
Weegee
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If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony.
Nicholas Sparks
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What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
Hafez
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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world.
Oliver Hardy
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Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.
Stephen Fry
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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
Samuel Beckett
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Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The joys of friendship inert the heart and fizzy home bouncing jubilantly with laughter-buttered love.
Bradley Chicho
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
J. C. Ryle
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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
Bob Newhart
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You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.
Jeffrey Tambor
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
Nelson Mandela
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Laughter is America's most important export.
Walt Disney
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
Langston Hughes
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon us, as we walk along the street, as we sit at evening with fruit and wine upon the table and laughter on our lips, as we wake suddenly from sleep in the hour before dawn; neither at our work nor our play nor our prayers are we safe, those moments can leap at any time out of the blackness around human life and suddenly the colors that we have nailed to our mast are there no longer and all that we have grasped is dust.
Elizabeth Goudge
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e. e. cummings
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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.
Christine Lakin
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I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
Linda Ellerbee
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The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We've all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we've all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that's a gift - to you and your audience.
Kevin Hart
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Shared laughter is erotic too.
Marge Piercy