Laughter Quotes

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.

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.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

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

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.

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.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Does anyone remember laughter?

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

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.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

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

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

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

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Nobody ever died of laughter.