There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.
Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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.
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.
A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.
If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.
Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
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.
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
I love to make people laugh, and I believe that laughter and song are the best way to help young children learn.
It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable it can't possibly be literature.
If there's one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it's the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother's side.
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.
Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
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.
Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.
Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.
You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.
Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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.
When somebody says something stupid to me, I usually alleviate it with laughter and humour. I make light of it to educate people on why it's inappropriate.
Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.
A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?
I like Robo Shankar - he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his in 'Maari.'
Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!
Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.
O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.
There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
I don't believe in God, so I'd say that laughter is one of the only true weapons for fighting against real darkness, grief and loss.
Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it's almost always better to laugh than to cry.
Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.
Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.
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