Laughter Quotes

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it's like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they're in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

~ Jim Harrison

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

~ Sarah Kay

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

~ Sean Connery

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

~ Bill Hicks

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.

~ Robin Williams

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.

~ Marlo Thomas

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.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

~ John Irving

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

~ Bennett Cerf

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.

~ Mary Pickford

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

~ Rumi

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.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

~ Bob Newhart

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

~ Bob Newhart

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.

~ Joan Lunden

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

~ Françoise Sagan

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

~ Virginia Woolf

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

~ Diogo Morgado

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

~ Carol Burnett

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

~ Lenny Bruce

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

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.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.

~ Jane Krakowski

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

~ Carl Sandburg

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

~ George Eliot

I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

~ Mary Quant

Naming me 'Twinkle' was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, 'Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!'

~ Twinkle Khanna

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

~ Nelson Mandela

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

~ Henry Ward Beecher

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

~ Victor Hugo

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

~ Malcolm De Chazal

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.

~ Reba Mcentire

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

~ Lawrence Durrell

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

~ Albert Brooks

Even in my comedies, I don't take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it's fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

~ Albert Brooks

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

~ Molly Ivins

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

~ Molly Ivins