Laughter Quotes

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

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

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

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.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

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.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

I have two lovely parents who support everything I do, two siblings, and three beautiful nieces. My house is always filled with laughter and fun!

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.

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.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

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.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

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.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

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

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don't laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that's not real laughter.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

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.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.

I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.