There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you're my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart? - Lisa Kleypas Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. - Anne Sexton 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,...

All of Creation's a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest. - William Shakespeare Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. - Rick Riordan Tell me about the first time you killed someone." The Werewolf Stuff. For Maddy it's another client quirk, but one she's hooked on. In the posteverything world it turns out humans can't kick the story habit. Homer gets the last laugh. "A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and the storyteller's hands are all over her." She didn't speak for a moment, then said: "What?" ...

Harness the power of today. Seize the blessings of today! Make something happen, enhance your life, make someone laugh, help a friend, love, love, love! - Steve Maraboli It's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them cry. - Cath Crowley You're funny, which you can't be if you're not smart. Dad says it's harder to make someone laugh than it is to make them smile. - Cath Crowley I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine. - Joan Cusack I love a good laugh as well, I think that's so important in life, which is probably why I've dabbled in comedy writing as well as horror. I think if you can make someone laugh or smile it's the most special thing in the world. - Paul Kane

There are things I've given up on Like recording funny answering machine messages. It's part of growing older And the human race as a group has matured along the same lines. It seems our comedy dates the quickest. If you laugh out loud at Shakespeare's jokes I hope you won't be insulted if I say you're trying too hard. Even sketches from the original Saturday Night Live seem slow-witted and obvious now. - David Berman I wish I could have talked with him longer. I wondered how I could get hold of him. I supposed I could attach my phone number to a pair of my undies and throw them onstage at his next show. The thought actually made me laugh out loud. He'd probably take one look at the white cotton panties and chuck them in the trash. - Wendy Higgins I would be sad if it ended now. It's been the best job I've had by a long shot, especially creatively because the writing is so good. Every week I get the script and I laugh out loud and get excited for the ...

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks. - Tamora Pierce Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. - George Carlin He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. - Arthur Conan Doyle Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself. - Chelsea Handler

There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out loud, so happy was I. The memory of it makes me laugh now, but not from happiness. Be careful what you show the world. You never know when the wolf is watching. - Jennifer Donnelly He's fighting the world." And now, I watch as the underdog in the middle of the circle fights on and stands and falls and returns to his haunches and feet and fights on again. He fights on, no matter how hard he hits the ground. He gets up. Some people cheer him. Others laugh now and rubbish him. Feeling comes out of me. I watch. My eyes swell, and burn. "Can he win?" I ask it, and now, I too cannot take my eyes off the boy in the circle. - Markus Zusak On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The secon...

...avoid like the measles phony laughter. No, really. If you don't find it to be funny, don't laugh. More evil and injustice has gotten a foothold in this world because of polite, counterfeit laughter a desire to not "offend", or to not be "peculiar" - than anything else. But when you do laugh, let your belly shimmy. - Jenna Brooks People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh. - Adrian Edmondson

You can't live a positive life with a negative mind and if you have a positive outcome you have a positive income and just to have more positivity and just to kind of laugh it off. - Miley Cyrus Girls don't fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don't snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they've given up and try to lure someone else. - Wendelin Van Draanen If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved. - Russell Lynes I struggled in my mind with all kinds of defenses. Should I be hurt? Surprised? Should I laugh it off? I wanted to say something cruel to expiate my anger and to justify myself. But it's difficult with old friends; difficult because i...

Then I will tell you something. I do not believe in it. Forty years among men has consistently taught me that they are not amenable to common sense. Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face - Bertolt Brecht Pale hair fell in waves to his shoulders, framing a face mortal females considered a sensual feast. They didn't know the man was actually a devil in angel's skin. They should have, though. He practically glowed with irreverence, and there was an unholy gleam in his green eyes that proclaimed he would laugh in your face while cutting out your heat. Or laugh in your face while you cut out his heart. - Gena Showalter So what is the best vegetable? Well, we all know that: it's the potato. The vegetable you can't screw up. You can throw a potato into a bonfire ,...

Variations: II Green light, from the moon, Pours over the dark blue trees, Green light from the autumn moon Pours on the grass... Green light falls on the goblin fountain Where hesitant lovers meet and pass. They laugh in the moonlight, touching hands, They move like leaves on the wind... I remember an autumn night like this, And not so long ago, When other lovers were blown like leaves, Before the coming of snow. - Conrad Aiken I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death. - Mitch Albom Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho And very amusing it is to watch," said Jem. "Did you know you twitch your nose when you sleep, like a rabbit?" "I do not," she said, with a whispered laugh.- In my dreams (Chapter 17) deleted scene- Clockwork Prince - Cassandra Clare Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight. - Elizabeth Gilbert A rogue does no...

I'll stare the bastard in the face as he screams to God, and I'll laugh harder when he whimpers like a baby. And when his eyes go dead, the hell I send him to will seem like heaven after what I've done to him. - Frank Miller A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder. - Bob Northam

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?' - Gael Garcia Bernal It's harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone's arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts. - Robert Fulghum If you can laugh, you can get through it. In our house, we laugh a lot. - Jami Gertz Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you! - Paula Radcliffe laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories. - Jessica Simpson Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you each lunch with him and talk with him and share secret...

Laugh it up, asshole. But she who laughs last laughs longest, and I intend to belly roll tonight. - Sherrilyn Kenyon All of Creation's a farce. Man was born as a joke. In his head his reason is buffeted Like wind-blown smoke. Life is a game. Everyone ridicules everyone else. But he who has the last laugh Laughs longest. - William Shakespeare Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. - Rick Riordan Tell me about the first time you killed someone." The Werewolf Stuff. For Maddy it's another client quirk, but one she's hooked on. In the posteverything world it turns out humans can't kick the story habit. Homer gets the last laugh. "A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale," I said. "But she's naked and t...

No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Why?" he asked, opening both his eyes. "Because sometimes it's either laugh or cry. I prefer laugh. How about you? - P C Cast The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history. - Dalai Lama To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. - Louis C K We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle. - Allan Carr But they always just laugh off everything I say, when really I want absolutely nothing more than to destroy the world they live in and to watch them suffer, alone and miserable, trying to live in my ...

"This is what people do here?" "It's a little more complicated than that." "Everything seems complicated here," he grumbled. "That"s life," I laughed. "Life is complicated." "And that's good?" I nodded. "That's good. - Jus Accardo I cannot control my feelings of disappointment, rage, or sadness. When I am confused, I look confused. I'd be a hopeless spy. The other side of the coin is that when I'm happy I laugh my head off, I smile at strangers; when I'm content I radiate calmness. There is a third side of the coin: my brick-wall face. That is reserved only for when heady emotions are turned my way. I don't like that at all. - Carrie Adams I'd ask you to hang out with us, but you're not supposed to see me this way.'... 'What way?' I ask. 'Drunk?' 'Yeah...well, no.' His voice softens. 'Real, I guess.' 'I'll pretend I didn't.' ...

I'll be in Los Angeles for two weeks and I'll have a laugh, get battered and have a buzz, but at the end of the day, I'll go home. It's just me earning a few more stories to tell everyone at home and all. - Colin Farrell I don't really do pranks any more. I have a laugh in the dressing room here, where it's safe, and the guys don't go to the papers and tell them what I've done. - Paul Gascoigne I think most musicians do like to have a laugh. - Neil Innes Noel shook his head. "You think better of this scene than I do, Ruby. Don't you see how fake those girls are? Let it go. Have a laugh about it when you're older. Forget that junk." I wanted to believe him, to skip off to some punk-rock hangout and develop ironic distance and start over in a universe where it didn't matter what any of these people thought about me. But I couldn't. I just loved them. - E Lockhart Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he li...

You gotta laugh because if you didn't you'd cry - Craig Ferguson Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh. - Jacqueline Woodson

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh. - Alan Bradley For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world. - Bennett Cerf One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. - Robert A Heinlein I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts... because its the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. But find me something that makes you laugh, a joke, anything--but something that gave you a belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't wrongness somewhere and whether you would laugh if the wrongness wasn't there. - Robert A Heinlein There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them. - Sammy Davis Jr Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs. - Norman Lear For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight ac...