Top laughter Quotes Collection

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Image of Michael Joseph Oakeshott
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Collection: Laughter
Image of Max Ehrmann
Whatever else you do or forbear, impose upon yourself the task of happiness; and now and then abandon yourself to the joy of laughter. And however much you condemn the evil in the world, remember that the world is not all evil; that somewhere children are at play, as you yourself in the old days; that women still find joy in the stalwart hearts of men; And that men, treading with restless feet their many paths, may yet find refuge from the storms of the world in the cheerful house of love.
- Max Ehrmann
Collection: Laughter
Image of Bono
Laughter is eternity if joy is real.
- Bono
Collection: Laughter
Image of Barbara Walters
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
- Barbara Walters
Collection: Laughter
Image of Robert Harling
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones)
- Robert Harling
Collection: Laughter
Image of Kathi Appelt
Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.
- Kathi Appelt
Collection: Laughter
Image of Alexander Gordon Smith
I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
Collection: Laughter
Image of Franz Schubert
It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.
- Franz Schubert
Collection: Laughter
Image of Mike Yaconelli
Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.
- Mike Yaconelli
Collection: Laughter
Image of David Archuleta
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.
- David Archuleta
Collection: Laughter
Image of Francois Rabelais
I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
- Francois Rabelais
Collection: Laughter
Image of Jody Watley
Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste.
- Jody Watley
Collection: Laughter
Image of Dar Williams
There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.
- Dar Williams
Collection: Laughter
Image of Max Beerbohm
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
- Max Beerbohm
Collection: Laughter
Image of Thomas Love Peacock
Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.
- Thomas Love Peacock
Collection: Laughter
Image of David Nicholls
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.
- David Nicholls
Collection: Laughter
Image of Hilari Bell
The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.
- Hilari Bell
Collection: Laughter
Image of Robin Wasserman
Nobody likes me,” he concluded at the tail end of a ten-minute pity fest. “Can’t imagine why,” Quinn murmured. I turned my snort of laughter into a fake cough, which was an embarrassingly feeble attempt at subterfuge when you consider the fact that I didn’t have any lungs.
- Robin Wasserman
Collection: Laughter
Image of Dawn Powell
I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.
- Dawn Powell
Collection: Laughter
Image of Henryk Sienkiewicz
Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Collection: Laughter
Image of Henryk Sienkiewicz
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.
- Henryk Sienkiewicz
Collection: Laughter
Image of J.R. Miller
God...made childhood joyous, full of life, bubbling over with laughter, playful, bright and sunny. We should put into their childhood days just as much sunshine and gladness, just as much cheerful pleasure as possible. Pour in the sunshine about them in youth. Let them be happy, encourage all innocent joy, provide pleasant games for them, romp and play with them; be a child again among them. Then God's blessing will come upon your home, and your children will grow up sunny-hearted, gentle, affectionate, joyous themselves and joy-bearers to the world.
- J.R. Miller
Collection: Laughter
Image of N.D. Wilson
The world is rated R, and no one is checking IDs. Do not try to make it G by imagining the shadows away. Do not try to hide your children from the world forever, but do not pretend there is no danger . Train them. Give them sharp eyes and bellies full of laughter. Make them dangerous. Make them yeast, and when they’ve grown, they will pollute the shadows.
- N.D. Wilson
Collection: Laughter
Image of N.D. Wilson
Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.
- N.D. Wilson
Collection: Laughter
Image of John Ratzenberger
One of the high points in my career came from a time I had with Tim Conway on a film when I had him fall down with laughter. I had this scene with him where I was this mechanic down fixing his car. I can't remember what my line was as written, but they were okay with me doing a made-up line. So Tim asks me what's wrong with his car, and I look up and say, "Well, looks like you got a squirrel caught up in there."
- John Ratzenberger
Collection: Laughter
Image of Merlin Olsen
The focus of my life begins at home with family, loved ones and friends. I want to use my resources to create a secure environment that fosters love, learning, laughter and mutual success. I will protect and value integrity. I will admit and quickly correct my mistakes. I will be a self-starter. I will be a caring person. I will be a good listener with an open mind. I will continue to grow and learn. I will facilitate and celebrate the success of others.
- Merlin Olsen
Collection: Laughter
Image of Torey L. Hayden
Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives
- Torey L. Hayden
Collection: Laughter
Image of Fritz Leiber
The dark dangerous forest is still there, my friends. Beyond the space of the astronauts and the astronomers, beyond the dark, tangled regions of Freudian and Jungian psychiatry, beyond the dubious psi-realms of Dr. Rhine, beyond the areas policed by the commissars and priests and motivations-research men, far, far beyond the mad, beat, half-hysterical laughter... the utterly unknown still is and the eerie and ghostly lurk, as much wrapped in mystery as ever.
- Fritz Leiber
Collection: Laughter
Image of Linda Howard
Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives won’t be made by a total stranger.
- Linda Howard
Collection: Laughter
Image of Jean-Dominique Bauby
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.
- Jean-Dominique Bauby
Collection: Laughter
Image of James Randi
To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.
- James Randi
Collection: Laughter
Image of W. E. B. Du Bois
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
Collection: Laughter
Image of Hubert Selby, Jr.
All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
Collection: Laughter
Image of C.C. Hunter
Take some very deep breaths," Miranda said. "Relax. Concentrate. Then envision a frosty six-pack and wiggle your pinky." A frosty six-pack. Kylie inhaled. He held out her pinky, and right then Della chimed in. "We are talking a six=pack of soda, not a cold guy with good-looking abs, right?" There was a strange kind of sizzle in the air. And suddenly appearing in front of the refrigerator was a shirtless, shivering guy with great abs. His blue eyes studied the three of them in complete bafflement. "What the...!" he muttered. Kylie gasped. Miranda giggled. Della snorted with laughter.
- C.C. Hunter
Collection: Laughter
Image of Sean O'Casey
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
- Sean O'Casey
Collection: Laughter
Image of Victor Borge
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
- Victor Borge
Collection: Laughter
Image of Victor Borge
Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.
- Victor Borge
Collection: Laughter
Image of W. S. Merwin
Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
- W. S. Merwin
Collection: Laughter
Image of Tom Robbins
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
Collection: Laughter
Image of Jules Renard
Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.
- Jules Renard
Collection: Laughter
Image of David Brinkley
Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley
Collection: Laughter
Image of Isobelle Carmody
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
- Isobelle Carmody
Collection: Laughter
Image of Isobelle Carmody
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
- Isobelle Carmody
Collection: Laughter
Image of Reif Larsen
How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.
- Reif Larsen
Collection: Laughter
Image of Mervyn Peake
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.
- Mervyn Peake
Collection: Laughter
Image of Pablo Neruda
Of everything I have seen, it's you I want to go on seeing: of everything I've touched, it's your flesh I want to go on touching. I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping. What am I to do, love, loved one? I don't know how others love or how people loved in the past. I live, watching you, loving you. Being in love is my nature.
- Pablo Neruda
Collection: Laughter
Image of Henri Bergson
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
- Henri Bergson
Collection: Laughter
Image of Cecelia Ahern
But even in her laughter there was something missing. She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.
- Cecelia Ahern
Collection: Laughter