Laughter Quotes - page 6

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. (Mark Twain)
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. View quote
Sherman Alexie
Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. View quote
Craig Ferguson
Laughter is higher than all pain. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come, and trip it, as you go. On the light fantastic toe. View quote
John Milton
What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions. View quote
Walt Disney
Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine. View quote
Bo Burnham
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief. View quote
Henry van Dyke
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. (Josh Billings)
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss. View quote
Michael Oakeshott
On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. View quote
Hartley Coleridge
God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity. View quote
Mark Buchanan
If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter. View quote
Markus Zusak
the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance. View quote
Mary Astor
... laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex. View quote
Patricia Gaffney
Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . View quote
Rosamund Lupton
Now, young lady, I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter. View quote
Scott Westerfeld
Come away with me, Astrid. (Zarek) Why should I? (Astrid) Because I love you, and even if I'm lying on the sun itself I'll be freezing there without you. I need my star so that I can hear laughter. (Zarek) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have found my star. She is beauty and grace. Elegance and goodness. My laughter in winter. She is courageous and strong. Bold and tempting. Unlike any other in all the universe, and I cannot touch her. I dare not even try." [Zarek]. (Sherrilyn Kenyon)
Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love? View quote
Eugene O'Neill
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child. View quote
Bill Cosby
Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's 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. View quote
Bernie Siegel
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. View quote
Eileen Caddy