Quotes About Laughter And Humor

#1. A scientific theory that laughter and humor increase the odds of survival among patients with terminal illnesses?

Suzanne Brockmann

#2. 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.

Katie Price

#3. And this might also sound trivial, but I don't think you'd make attractive children."
"Daddy!" I yelled, causing a bit of a stir. I buried my head in my hand as Dad doubled over in laughter.
"I'm just saying!

Kiera Cass

#4. 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

#5. With Kennedy, I was anchored. She filled all the lonely spaces inside of me with her laughter, with her wry and witty humor, with everything we had in common.

Lauren Blakely

#6. Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose?

Steve Goodier

#7. The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.

Gary Shteyngart

#8. Was he hitting some type of werewolf midlife crisis? First, he'd left Wolf Town, and now he was envisioning a mate. What next? Bird watching? Board games? Retirement homes?

Rose Wynters

#9. Elizabeth waited until he had left and then promptly burst into laughter. She couldn't help it, she had been soaked, threatened by a skunk, attacked by a dog and now given a moral lesson by a man that had threatened her with a Winchester earlier.
She couldn't remember ever having a better day.

Grace Willows

#10. My condolences, you're still alive.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#11. In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.

Bo Lozoff

#12. Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#13. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating relics from an archaeological dig. I note that their shoulders are trembling, and I realize that they are fighting laughter over my terrible plight. There's friendship for you.

Libba Bray

#14. 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

#15. Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,
making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Brenda Ueland

#16. Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Marcel Duchamp

#17. It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

Fred Allen

#18. Tiny Giggles
Silly giggles of laughter
I store upon a shelf
I give some to other
I save some for myself
I am rich beyond all measure
Though not with worldly wealth
I store up these treasures
For my heart and soulful health.

Muse

#19. A large praying mantis was performing ablutions on the springy stem of the kid's cowlick. The gunslinger snorted laughter-the first in gods knew how long-and set the fire and went after water.

Stephen King

#20. Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

James Thurber

#21. Stop changing the subject," Taylor snapped. "And think before you speak."
Roo pressed her lips together and then sighed. "How long do you want me to think?"
Niall let out a snort of laughter.

Barbara Elsborg

#22. Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.

Erma Bombeck

#23. Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Kristin Cashore

#24. You are incorrigible."
"I know." She sighed happily. "All the shit we've been through - all the shit I've been through - and I can still make lascivious jokes with the best of them. That's impressive, Merit. That's character.

Chloe Neill

#25. It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Stephen Fry

#26. You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

Lenny Bruce

#27. We laughed together. It's so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed ...

James Lusarde

#28. Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#29. You remember Ernest Angley? TV healer. He'd slap people's foreheads - whap! - and they'd flop over, quivering like fish." She hooted in laughter. "I used to love watching him. It was like professional wrestling for Baptists.

Daryl Gregory

#30. They were even talking about buying a bodyguard, can you believe it? I mean, what on earth would I look like, turning up with a bodyguard?
Actually, I'd look pretty cool and mysterious, wouldn't I? That might have been quite a good idea.

Sophie Kinsella

#31. 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

#32. Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

James Martin

#33. 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

#34. A sense of humor ... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Hugh Sidey

#35. Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Allen Klein

#36. When David wasn't ruling, he would ponder all the various forms of laughter there could be. So far, he had only categorized four: laughter at your own expense, laughter at the expense of others, laughter at the human predicament, and laughter at small animals falling off tables.

Jonathan Goldstein

#37. After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

Bill Kelly

#38. Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as long as the world revolves, making others laugh is the most splendid of activities.

Eduardo Galeano

#39. There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled.

Saurabh Sharma

#40. The F word turns me on, she whispered.
The F word?
Food
He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn't tinged with bitterness and cynicism.

Sandra Brown

#41. They say laughter is the best medicine, and I agree. Plus, it's free, has no bad side effects and is available to EVERYONE.

Mindy Levy

#42. Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

Beth Moore

#43. I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

Rene Magritte

#44. He looked so silly that I could not stop laughing, even as my tears kept flowing. Is the root of laughter also sorrow? As I laughed, I was filled with both joy and sorrow.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#45. There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Erma Bombeck

#46. Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God ... is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Karl Barth

#47. An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

Norman Cousins

#48. Life is a waste without humor
living is all about happiness and laughter.

Fauja Singh

#49. And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.

Art Linkletter

#50. People always say humour helps to avoid the dark things in life. I think it's the opposite. Humour helps us understand and partner with the sadness and beauty of life. And sometimes, because we're bathed in laughter, we are protected. Or at least, humour can help us see the world differently.

Bruce McCulloch

#51. People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

Wes Adamson

#52. There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Charles Dickens

#53. 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

#54. Now I am in control!" He followed this statement with a burst of laughter that showed the owner had done a fair share of gloating in his time, and had the basics down pat.

Phil Foglio

#55. There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud.

Shannon L. Alder

#56. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

#57. Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

George Gissing

#58. God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me if ye cough up a lung and die out here!

Diana Gabaldon

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

David Sedaris

#62. Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

Abe Burrows

#63. Smiles are a funny thing
and laughter is hilarious.
I smile sometimes
when I am delirious.

Casey Renee Kiser

#64. Humor is the only free emotion. I mean, you can compel fear, as we know. You can compel love, actually ... But you can't compel laughter. It happens when two things come together and make a third unexpectedly.

Gloria Steinem

#65. 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 Crosby

Aleatha Romig

#66. Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward.

Cary Grant

#67. It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#68. Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can't laugh and be angry, you can't laugh and feel sad, you can't laugh and feel envious.

Bel Kaufman

#69. They would spend a lot of their time simply walking around in the woods or in the cities, or they would come over to his house and he would teach them with a great deal of humor and laughter about the nature of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#70. I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known.

Dave Barry

#71. Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

Gilda Radner

#72. Well now, darlin'," he drawled softly, and those eyes of his raked over her thoroughly with laughter, humor, and something else. Then his eyes landed upon her own. "You've grown up while I've been away.

Heather Graham

#73. She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear ... "
"And in boyfriends," I added impishly.
Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that

Darren Shan

#74. Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.

John F. Kennedy

#75. Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.

Leo Rosten

#76. Create an atmosphere without fear and encourage laughter. Of course, there will be consequences for wrong decisions, but people shouldn't be so apprehensive that they are fearful to make any decision. Humor can help keep things in perspective.

Jim Korkis

#77. To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.

Sage Kafsky

#78. Everybody laughed for a long time, for it was the kind of joke that seemed to grow on you. You would laugh and eventually stop. But after a few minutes you would think of the joke again, and you would burst out laughing all over again.

Zakes Mda

#79. Laughter
an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Bierce

#80. There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

Earl Nightingale

#81. They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death," Ned said evenly. "Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

George R R Martin