Laughter Quotes - Page 29

• Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

  Mel Gussow

  Happiness, Joy, Clown

  Mel Gussow (1998). “Theatre on the Edge: New Visions, New Voices”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Happiness, Smile

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  We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Air, Water

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• We're born to be happy, all of us.

  Alfred Sutro

  Happiness, Joy, Born

  Alfred Sutro (1906). “The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts”

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• When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

  Todd Solondz

  Happiness, People, Laughing

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  Happiness, Joy, Needs

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• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Eye, Sublime

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2007). “The Brownings' Correspondence: September 1849-January 1851, letters 2813-2900”

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• Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

  Jack Hyles

  Mean, Tears, Has Beens

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• Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
  But I like an orgy, once in a while.

  Ogden Nash

  Home, Heaven

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start, something put us together to be sisters by heart.

  Meghan Trainor

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• Here's hoping that your special day
  Will be more 'happy ever after'
  With all the joys of friendship,
  Love, fun and laughter

  John Walter Bratton

  Fun, Wedding Anniversary, Joy

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• If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

  Denis Norden

  Shows, Malicious, Audience

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• If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Crazy, Laughing, Insane

  Song: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

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• Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.

  Lucie Arnaz

  Funny, Stress, Healing

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• The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

  William Shakespeare

  Laughing, You Like It, Horns

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 4, sc. 2, l. [17]

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• The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his .

  W. C. Fields

  Laughing, Comedian, Doe

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• But why doesn't the Gospel ever say that Christ laughed?" I asked, for no good reason. "Is Jorge right?" "Legions of scholars have wondered whether Christ laughed. The question doesn't interest me much. I believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of God had to be, he knew how we Christians would behave. . . .

  Umberto Eco

  Christian, Believe, Book

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

  T. S. Eliot

  Irresponsible, Laughed

  T.S. Eliot (2009). “Collected Poems 1909-1962”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• His laughter tinkled among the teacups.

  T. S. Eliot

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.36, Broadview Press

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• And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe.

  Thomas Gray

  Laughing, Woe, Madness

  Thomas Gray (1814). “The poems of Thomas Gray with critical notes, a life of the author... by John Mitford”, p.22

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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Track

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

  Seneca the Younger

  Causes, Weeping, All Things

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• To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Laughing

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• An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

  Robert Burns

  Atheist, Laughing, Deities

  'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786) st. 9

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• Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

  Ovid

  Latin, Laughing, Fool

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