Laughter Quotes - Page 30

• The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Dog, Wind, Voice

  Oliver Goldsmith (1858). “Goldsmith's Deserted village, with remarks on the analysis of sentences, exercises in parsing, notes ... and a life of the poet ... By Walter M'Leod”, p.61

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

  Marie Corelli

  Thinking, Laughing, Fool

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance”, p.31, The Floating Press

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• The Long March The Red Army is not afraid of hardship on the march, the long march. Ten thousand waters and a thousand mountains are nothing. The Five Sierras meander like small waves, the summits of Wumeng pour on the plain like balls of clay. Cliffs under clouds are warm and washed below by the River Gold Sand. Iron chains are cold, reaching over the Tatu River. The far snows of Minshan only make us happy and when the army pushes through, we all laugh. October 1935

  Mao Zedong

  Happiness, Army, Iron

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.63, Univ of California Press

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• The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?"

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Men, Foolish Man

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• She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Beautiful, Fall, Dark

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• Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

  John Milton

  Sports, Light, Goes On

  "L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

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• And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

  Jill Sobule

  World, Pearls, Diamond

  Song: I Kissed a Girl, Album: Jill Sobule, 1995

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• She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

  Moliere

  Laughing, Sleeves

  "Tartuffe" by Molière, Act I, sc. V, 1664.

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• A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Men, Laughing, Suffering

  Gustave Flaubert (1967). “Intimate notebook, 1840-1841”

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• There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

  Catullus

  Laughing, Foolish

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• Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

  Aristophanes

  Laughing, Cracks, Failing

  Aristophanes (2008). “The Birds and Other Plays: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.228, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Myriad laughter of the ocean waves.

  Aeschylus

  Ocean, Wave, Ocean Wave

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• Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.

  Stephen Stills

  Song, Heart, Keys

  Song: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 2007

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• Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.

  Benjamin De Casseres

  Victory, Progress, Dogma

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• Don't let a single comic moment pass you by; then help the audience get the laughs. Give them permission to laugh by holding for laughter and by letting them know early on what they're in for. In the first few moments, the audience is gathering information, looking at the scenery and costumes. Create a comic moment as soon as you can.

  James Carver

  Giving, Laughing, Theatre

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• A nation that does not support and encourage its theater is - if not dead - dying; just as a theater that does not capture with laughter and tears the social and historical pulse, the drama of its people, the genuine color of the spiritual and natural landscape, has no right to call itself theater; but only a place for amusement.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Drama, Color

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• My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I know that cancer often kills, But so do cars and sleeping pills; And it can hurt till one sweats, So can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, Often accelerates one's cure; So let us patients do our bit To help the surgeons make us fit.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Hurt, Fun, Cancer

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• Sometimes all you need in love is to make each other happy, to make each other laugh. So long as you can still do that ten years down the line then I think you're gold. Never let the laughter slip from your relationship.

  Maya Angelou

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Thinking

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• For me, anything goes when I pick up a mike. I'm not trying to hurt people - I try not to get too personal - but I look at myself as a reporter. If you can report on anything that has to do with pop culture, then why can't I make jokes about it? Yes, it hurts. But I figure that laughter sometimes starts from pain. You might wince, but then I know that I'm doing my job. The only thing I can do wrong is not be funny.

  Chris Rock

  Hurt, Jobs, Pain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, Sex, Passion

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• For those who believe in the quote, Laughter is the best medicine and are looking for a divorce quote on the lighter side, the following divorce sayings range from mildly humorous to outrageously funny:
  Men are just like a book - with a beginning, middle and an end.

  Pamela Anderson

  Humorous, Believe, Book

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• It was a fine fall morning in Paris, crisp and clear, and Benji was quite full of himself, cavorting near the fountain, playing with the children who had inexplicably materialized out of nowhere at the first whiff of a movie star. Their faces radiated and they took turns gently stroking his head. Those Benji chose to favor with a big sloppy lick exploded with laughter, and one young girl ran to her mother, screeching in French that she would never wash her face again.

  Joe Camp

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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• Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Song, Flower, Tears

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• Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerful mass; laughter and joy are expressions of praise and thanksgiving for life's glories. When looking at the glass that symbolizes our life, we can view it as half full or half empty. The choice is ours... The more joyful we are, the more attractive we become. When we feel gratitude for our experiences, it becomes easier to see the good that always exists. When we give a smile to someone else, we are likely to receive one in return, and that smile reflects a happy heart that is open and receptive to what the good life has in store.

  John Templeton

  Gratitude, Good Life, Heart

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• But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

  Adriana Trigiani

  Mother, Children, Heart

  Adriana Trigiani (2012). “The Shoemaker's Wife”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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