Top 1200 Gift Of Laughter Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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

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

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through no fault of ours. The Doctor of souls, however, wishing to root out the soul's excuses from the heart, tells us to leave our gift and to be reconciled not only if we happen to be upset by our brother, but also if he is upset by us, whether justly or unjustly; only when we have healed the breach through our apology should we offer our gift.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do your art, you're actually making yourself vulnerable. You yourself are not God's gift to truth. You have to hazard yourself in their world, especially because you're inviting people to do the same. It's all about become visible, becoming incarnate, becoming here and now and yet with our eyes on a future horizon; holding the conversation you were meant to hold.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

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

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

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.

I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

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

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

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.

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

I kept saying that I want to be a singer, singer, singer. Someone told me, "Noooo, you move as an actress!" I believe that happens to a lot of people. People have a multiplicity of gifts, but I think people in your life are telling you which one you should focus on. I just got done talking with my group of water walkers about this. If you focus on one of your gifts, that one gift will be the catalyst to open up opportunities for the other gift.

The sound of her laughter was sticky as sap, the smell of night-blooming jasmine soft as a milk bath.

We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

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

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer.

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

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.

I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Laugh every chance you get. Laughter is sure to break the bonds of negativity that may be lurking about.

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.