Laughter Quotes

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

~ Allen Klein

People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it's the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it's fun, and it's positive, and it's a healer. Laughter is God's gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.

~ Goldie Hawn

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

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

~ Thomas Carlyle

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

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

~ Tom Lehrer

You learn timing on the road. You learn structure and how to read an audience. You learn so much about the business of laughter that you can't learn on a set, because it's all on you. Sometimes you bomb, and you know not to tell that joke again... You just hope people find the humor in the awkwardness.

~ Marlon Wayans

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

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

~ Françoise Sagan

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

~ Alice Meynell

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.

~ Saint Basil

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

~ Yakov Smirnoff

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That's why you need a strong line of communication... which includes laughter.

~ Yakov Smirnoff

My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.

~ John Davidson

Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.

~ David Dobkin

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

~ Albert Einstein

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

~ Langston Hughes

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

~ George Pierce Baker

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.

~ Andrew Hudgins

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.

~ Judith Viorst

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.

~ Cate Blanchett

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.

~ Isabella Bird

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

~ Milan Kundera

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.

~ Red Skelton

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

~ Khalil Gibran

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

~ George Ade

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

~ Lewis Carroll

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

~ Gail Parent

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

~ Oscar Wilde

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

~ Celia Imrie

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

~ Jasper Carrott

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can't laugh at yourself, then you can't laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

~ David Hasselhoff

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

~ Kimberly Elise

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

~ Norman Cousins

Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.

~ Alain De Botton

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

~ Josh Billings

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

~ Wayne Dyer

The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.

~ Alan Alda

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

~ Woody Allen

Laughter is God's blessing.

~ Joseph Prince