LAUGHTER QUOTES

• We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
• A real shepherd doesn't slaughter his herd.
  ~ Miriam Onyancha ~
• The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
• Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
  ~ Joseph Addison ~
• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?
  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
• Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
  ~ Reba Mcentire ~
• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
  ~ Helen Hayes ~
• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
  ~ Peter Ustinov ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
  ~ Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
• There is little success where there is little laughter.
  ~ Andrew Carnegie ~
• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
  ~ James Thurber ~
• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
  ~ James Thurber ~
• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
  ~ James Thurber ~
• It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
  ~ Paul Mccartney ~
• I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
  ~ Albert Brooks ~
• I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
  ~ Bill Hicks ~
• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
  ~ Milan Kundera ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
  ~ Red Skelton ~
• It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
  ~ Wayne Dyer ~
• It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
  ~ Wayne Dyer ~
• It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
  ~ Wayne Dyer ~
• I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
  ~ Tom Hooper ~
• Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
  ~ Allen Klein ~
• Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
  ~ Allen Klein ~
• Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
  ~ Sean Connery ~
• Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
  ~ Sean Connery ~
• Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
  ~ Josh Billings ~
• I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
  ~ Woody Allen ~
• If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
  ~ Ellen Degeneres ~
• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
  ~ Virginia Woolf ~
• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
  ~ Bill Cosby ~
• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
  ~ Bill Cosby ~
• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
  ~ Bill Cosby ~
• There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
  ~ Erma Bombeck ~
• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
• Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
• Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
  ~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
• True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
  ~ Thomas Carlyle ~
• If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
  ~ George Washington ~
• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
  ~ Nelson Mandela ~
• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
  ~ Lao Tzu ~
• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
  ~ Victor Hugo ~
• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
  ~ Albert Einstein ~
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
  ~ Albert Einstein ~
• Nature, love laughter, frendship and many other happiness giving things come for free.
  ~ Gopal Krishnan ~