Present Laughter Quotes

#1. Our present tears here, not our present laughter
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

Robert Herrick

#2. Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

William Shakespeare

#3. Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling.

Philip Sidney

#4. The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.

Sakshi Chetana

#5. [Garry Essendine]: That is no prostitute, but the wife of one of my best friends!

Noel Coward

#6. Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.

Madeleine L'Engle

#7. He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#8. Sometimes you have to accept how things are. You can make it easy on yourself, or you can make it hard. The choice is yours.

Susan Mallery

#9. What difference does it make whether your work is appreciated or not? The work will still be yours. Anyway, most of us are only appreciated after we are dead.

John Sloan

#10. How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people.

Gabby Rivera

#11. I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.

Michelle Singletary

#12. God himself favors the brave.

Ovid

#13. Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.

David Simon

#14. It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

Charles Baudelaire

#15. I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense.

Kelli Russell Agodon

#16. We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Samuel Johnson

#17. Oh well, this is only temporary. Everything will be better someday. I'll make it better. After all, I'm young yet.

Betty Smith

#18. Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so someone bursting out in such ecstatic laughter is without memory and desire, for he is emitting his shout into the world's present moment and wishes to know only that.

Milan Kundera

#19. Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

Daphne Du Maurier

#20. I was the first blogger on the 'Times's website. That happened during the Iraq war, when I wanted an outlet for the things I was seeing every day that couldn't fit into just two columns a week. Then I became interested in using multimedia, specifically as a way to engage young people.

Nicholas Kristof