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Laughter Is Quotes

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
- Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is the antidote to existential pain
- S Spencer Baker

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
- Henri Barbusse

A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.
- Dave Barry

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
- Karl Barth

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
- Henry Ward Beecher

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
- Martha Beck

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
- Henri Bergson

Laughter is an instant vacation.
- Milton Berle

The fake laughter is an implied message.
- Toba Beta

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
- Josh Billings

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
- Bono

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
- Frances Hodgson Burnett

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
- Jim Butcher

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
- Jasper Carrott

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
- Angela Carter

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
- Carol Channing

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
- Charles Chaplin

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
- Charlie Chaplin

A day without laughter is a day wasted.
- Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
- Malcolm De Chazal

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.
- Kristin Chenoweth

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
- Lord Chesterfield

Laughter is a force for democracy.
- John Cleese

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
- John Cleese

Laughter is contagious and I'm trying to start an epidemic.
- Michael P Clutton

Spreading laughter is healthy and more fun than sex. Well... unless you do them at the same time.
- Michael P Clutton

If laughter is the best medicine, let's OD together.
- Michael P Clutton

Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.
- Walt Disney Company

Laughter is America's most important export.
- Walt Disney Company

Laughter is America's most important export.
- Walt Disney

Laughter is inner jogging.
- Norman Cousins

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
- Norman Cousins

Has Trey ever told you that he's a virgin?" Reagan asked, stroking Ethan's hair with one hand and Trey's with thee other.
Ethan lifted his head and snorted with laughter. "Is today opposite day?
- Olivia Cunning

Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.
- Bryan R Dennis

Your laughter is like cool water to me," I said. I felt my heart sob at these strange words, and it would not have been hard to summon tears: Strange. " "You are so serious all of a sudden," she told me. "I am not any one thing," I said. (137)
- Patrick Dewitt

Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.
- Thomas M Disch

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
- Milan Kundera

Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.
- Milan Kundera

... and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and hatred is not timid, where people love with body and solu (...), where they dance in joy..
- Milan Kundera

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
- Max Eastman

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo

Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo

Laughter is susnshine. It chases winter from the human face.
- Victor Hugo

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
- Robert Fulghum

Laughter is poison to fear.
- George R R Martin

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
- Arnold H Glasow

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
- Edmond De Goncourt

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

The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
- Tom Robbins

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
- George Gurdjieff

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
- Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is higher than all pain.
- Elbert Hubbard

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
- Diane Johnson

Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.
- Jarod Kintz

Do you know how much laughter is in a single bag of chips? Enough to feed a starving midget for a week.
- Jarod Kintz

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.
- Allen Klein

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
- Dean Koontz

Laughter is carbonated holiness.
- Anne Lamott

Laughter is by definition healthy.
- Doris Lessing

"All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive from one generation to the next. It ensures our indelible mark in the souls of generations we will never have the pleasure of holding in a warm embrace. Life is short people. Before you know it, another decade will pass, people you love will be lost to this world, and all that will be left of them is what we carry in our hearts." Elsie Love 2011
- Elsie Love

Laughter is good for both the body and the soul.
- Mike Meyer

You can pretend to admire, but, unless you are a superb actress, you can't pretend to laugh. Laughter is genuine or else it is just a noise.
- Christopher Milne

Our sex is fierce. We will both be bruised.
"I want it to always be like this," I tell him.
"Try holding onto that thought."
"I do not need to try. I will never feel differently."
His laughter is as dark and cold as the place of which I dream, "One day you will wonder if it's possible to hate me more.
- Karen Marie Moning

They laughed too, even Rose Dear shook her head and smiled, and suddenly the world was right side up. Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complicated, more serious than tears.
- Toni Morrison

Laughter is the language of the soul.
- Pablo Neruda

I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret.
- Bob Newhart

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer ... Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Shared laughter is erotic too.
- Marge Piercy

If laughter is one of the best medicines in life...laughing at yourself is aconducive pill.
- Timothy Pina

After being diagnose as bi-polar...I feel that laughter is the best medicine for all.I find that I can't write humorously and be depressed at the same time.:)
- Timothy Pina

Laughter is God's blessing.
- Joseph Prince

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
- Francois Rabelais

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.
- Jay Roach

It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it... so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.
- Marilynne Robinson

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.
- Gretchen Rubin

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

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
- Yakov Smirnoff

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
- Yakov Smirnoff

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Yakov Smirnoff

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
- Yakov Smirnoff

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
- Todd Solondz

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.
- Anne Taintor

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.
- Carol Vorderman

Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?
- Alice Walker

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
- Mort Walker

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