Laughter Quotations

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

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.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'

A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

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

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

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.

I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

A smile is a facelift that's in everyone's price range!

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.

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.