Top 100 Is Laughter Quotes
#1. Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter.
Kate Millett
#2. The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
Evan Esar
#3. Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.
Del Close
#4. The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.
RuPaul
#5. I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
Twyla Tharp
#7. Worry is the secret weapon perpetrated upon us by the dark forces of the world that lurk in the shape of fear, uncertainty, confusion, and loss.
We, on the other hand, have our own secret weapon against these incorporeal fiends.
It is laughter.
Vera Nazarian
#8. The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it ... try to fake three laughs in an hour
ha ha ha ha ha
they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce
#9. The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
#10. Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.
Daniel Prokop
#11. Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
Phyllis Bottome
#12. One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.
Joyce DeWitt
#14. Sometimes,when life gets hard, and people make you angry or even when you're scared, the best response is laughter.Laugh in the face of fear, in the face of what scares you the most.It's the only way to get you through the things that bring you to tears.
Rachel Van Dyken
#15. Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge
of oneself.
Alan W. Watts
#16. Sober Minds give the world a chance. True Love brings you Hope. Blind Faith moves mountains. And the main savior from despair is Laughter.
Lara Biyuts
#17. One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.
Bob Hope
#18. And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.
Erica Jong
#19. The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
#20. God is always joking. Look at your own life - it is a joke! Look at other people's lives, and you will find jokes and jokes and jokes. Seriousness is illness; seriousness has nothing spiritual about it. Spirituality is laughter, spirituality is joy, spirituality is fun.
Rajneesh
#21. The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
Hannah Arendt
#22. There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don't have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
John Cage
#24. I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love ... there is joy ... there is laughter.
Christopher Reeve
#27. Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
Charlie Chaplin
#29. There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.
Jesmyn Ward
#30. When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff
#31. Thank goodness air and salvation are still free ... and so is laughter.
L.M. Montgomery
#32. Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.
James Howe
#33. Flippancy. A laughing matter. It's like with funerals. They are, first and foremost, expected to be fun. There is laughter and drinking and bad language. To keep the whole thing from being too bourgeois. A bourgeois funeral is an artist's worst nightmare.
Herman Koch
#34. THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
Immanuel Kant
#35. The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.
Brene Brown
#37. I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
Bob Newhart
#38. Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.
Dave Attell
#39. The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.
Henri Bergson
#40. For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
#41. And what is laughter but a flashing of the soul, that is, a light appearing externally as it is within.
Dante Alighieri
#43. To laugh is to live profoundly ... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, that delectable trance of happiness, that ultimate peak of delight. Laughter of delight, delight of laughter ... it is an expression of being rejoicing at being ...
Milan Kundera
#44. Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
#45. You might as well laugh at yourself,
everyone else is.
B.J. Neblett
#46. I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#47. Is it because she's a challenge to you?" she asked, not looking away. "Because if you're going out with her because she's not easy, I swear to God, I will cut you."
I burst into laughter. "Cut me?"
Her eyes narrowed. "I'm not joking.
J. Lynn
#48. As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.
Seneca The Younger
#49. Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter ... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice ...
John McLeod
#50. Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
Mort Walker
#52. You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman
a devil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#54. 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
#55. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.
Zero Mostel
#56. When God laughs at the soul and the soul laughs back at God, the persons of the Trinity are begotten. When the Father laughs at the Son and the Son laughs back at the Father, that laughter gives pleasure, that pleasure gives joy, that joy gives love, and that love is the Holy Spirit.
Meister Eckhart
#58. Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.
Hermione Gingold
#59. That's the weirdest thing about being cut off from life. Everything gets washed out or muted or recedes into the background except for other people's laughter. Other people's laughter gets very loud and jarring. It penetrates. It is a reminder that other people live.
Kerry Kletter
#60. Every man now is responsible to create a buddhafield around himself, an energy field that goes on becoming bigger and bigger. Create as many vibrations of laughter, joy, celebration, as possible; dance, sing, let the whole of humanity by and by catch the fire of Zen and the wind of Zen.
Rajneesh
#61. Laughter is the greatest music in the world and audiences come to my shows to escape the cares of life. They don't want to be embarrassed or insulted. They want to laugh and so do I - which is probably why it works.
Ken Dodd
#63. Rune's eyes danced and his lean tanned features lit with laughter. "You ... cooled the meat for me?"
"Rasputin cannot eat the chicken when it is too hot," she said, frowning at him. "It seemed logical that you would not be able to either.
Thea Harrison
#64. What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#65. Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
Andrew Hudgins
#67. Laughter is the best medicine in the world.
Milton Berle
#68. Often in my lectures when I use the phrase "imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy" to describe our nation's political system, audiences laugh. No one has ever explained why accurately naming this system is funny. The laughter is itself a weapon of patriarchal terrorism.
Bell Hooks
#69. Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.
Keith Laumer
#70. The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#71. Right now in this space, I feel a brand new pull to him. I've always been drawn to his features, his brilliance, his laughter, his passion. But right now I'm attracted to his pain. It makes him human. It makes him real. It makes him something he hardly ever is to me: accessible.
Sarah Noffke
#72. To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be, it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
William Shakespeare
#73. I hesitate to say I was the class clown, but that was kind of how I interacted with other kids in school, and I very much appreciated the responses I got. The validation of laughter is often a very heavy psychological balm.
Simon Pegg
#76. 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
#77. We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.
Nikki Rowe
#79. It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
Goldie Hawn
#80. Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
Henry Roth
#81. Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving
#82. Do you believe, man of this time, that laughter is lower than worship? Where is your measure, false measurer? The sum of life decides in laughter and in worship, not your judgment.
C. G. Jung
#83. She [Nana] listened to his [Steiner's] propositions, turning them down every time with a shake of the head and that provocative laughter which is peculiar to full-bodied blondes.
Emile Zola
#84. Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Mark Twain
#85. What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck
#87. Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
Henri Bergson
#89. Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
Jack Kornfield
#90. An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.
Pearl S. Buck
#91. Laughter is a whip that keeps us in line. It's horrible to be laughed at against your will. Either you suppress unwelcome laughter or you start controlling it.
Keith Johnstone
#92. It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
Charles Dickens
#93. 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
#94. One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.
Francois Rabelais
#95. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
#96. Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.
David Gemmell
#97. I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.
Ingrid Betancourt
#99. Laughter is the evidence that the chokehold of shame has been loosened. Knowing laughter is the moment we feel proof that our shame has been transformed. Like empathy, it strips shame to the bone, robs it of its power and forces it from the closet.
Brene Brown
#100. More and more, as I get older, people come up to me and say, 'Thank you for all the laughter.' And my standard answer is, 'It was my pleasure.' But that's the truth.
Bob Newhart
