Laughter Quotes - Page 27

• You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
  Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
  Sneak home and pray you'll never know
  The hell where youth and laughter go.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Cheer, Home, Eye

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

  Lilly Pulitzer

  Believe, Fit, Elegance

  FaceBook post by Lilly Pulitzer from Jul 27, 2015

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• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Happiness, Smile, Distance

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• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Life, Wise, Depressing

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• If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

  Johan Huizinga

  Dream, Children, Lying

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• Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

  Keith Donohue

  Mean, Eye, Ice

  Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.58, Random House

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• How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

  Reif Larsen

  Buttons, Snapshots, World

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Tears, Care

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Distance

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• Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Joy, Saint, Charity

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• Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Cheer, Children

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) introduction

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• But they're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.

  Terry Wogan

  America, Laughing, Tonight

  "Beset by Lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on the earth! Marriage keeps thousands of things going on: the religion, the state, the nations, the wars, the literature, the movies, the science; everything, in fact, depends on the institution of marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, War, Silence

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• As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.

  Celia Thaxter

  Friendship, Flower, Talking

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.92, Applewood Books

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• Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Laughing, Police

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• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  P. T. Barnum

  Beautiful, Sweet, Children

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• To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get your emotions going. To be enthusiastic every day and as Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Nothing great could be accomplished without enthusiasm,' to keep your dreams alive in spite of problems whatever you have. The ability to be able to work hard for your dreams to come true, to become a reality.

  Jim Valvano

  Dream, Hard Work, Reality

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

  Jesmyn Ward

  Flirting, Nudge, Blushing

  Jesmyn Ward (2012). “Salvage the Bones”, p.150, A&C Black

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Men, Ideas

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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?

  John Fowles

  Life, Country, War

  "The Magus".

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• Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

  Janet Jackson

  Life, Nice, Laughing

  Song: The Knowledge, Album: Rhythm Nation 1814

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• Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Eye, Men

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 13

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• A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man; help us to perform them with laughter and kind faces, let cheerfulness abound with industry. Give us to go blithely on our business all this day. Bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored and grant us in the end the gift of sleep.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Morning, Business, Prayer

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1925). “The works of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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• Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Morning, Writing, Laughing

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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