195 quotes found
“Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.”
“Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.”
“Laughter is an instant vacation.”
“I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.”
“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 u...”
“The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.”
“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.”
“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.”
“The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you’re gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, ...”
“She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.”
“Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.”
“A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. "Do you wish fo...”
“It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be co...”
“And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.”
“It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an a...”
“And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at least had learned to laugh almost better than anyone in the world, and I saw all the fun we were goin...”
“Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movies—either to scream or to laugh—because those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really hor...”
“All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.”
