Laughter Quotes - Page 35

• There are lots of ways to bring joy, happiness, peace, laughter, hope and comfort into your life, and they cost absolutely nothing.

  Sandra Magsamen

  Joy, Comfort, Cost

  "31 Free Ways To Find Happiness" by Sandra Magsamen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2009.

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• Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Knows, Our Lives

  Wayne dyer, Wayne W. Dyer (1981). “The sky's the limit”, Pocket

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• Laughter is the best medicine in the world.

  Milton Berle

  Medicine, World, Laughter Is The Best Medicine

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• You know, the girls, they are more unstable emotionally than us. I'm sure everybody will say it's true even the girls (laughter). No? No, you don't think? I mean, it's just about hormones and all this stuff. We don't have all these bad things, so we are physically in a good shape every time, and you are not. That's it.

  Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

  Girl, Mean, Thinking

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• Satire must always accompany any free society. It is an absolute necessity. Even in the most repressive medieval kingdoms, they understood the need for the court jester, the one soul allowed to tell the truth through laughter. It is, in many ways, the most powerful form of free speech because it is aimed at those in power, or those whose ideas would spread hate. It is the canary in the coalmine, a cultural thermometer, and it always has to push, push, push the boundaries of society to see how much it’s grown.

  Joe Randazzo

  Powerful, Hate, Ideas

  "Former 'Onion' editor: Freedom of speech cannot be killed" by Joe Randazzo, www.msnbc.com. January 7, 2015.

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• I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It's like nature's Neosporin.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Believe, Emotional, Band

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• I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

  Klaus Kinski

  Grief, Joy, Wish

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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• I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

  Peta Wilson

  Men, Cry, Made

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• I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Acceptance, Form, Found

  "Gabriel Iglesias: Funny, 'Hot And Fluffy'". "Tell Me More" with Viviana Hurtado, www.npr.org. June 28, 2012.

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• One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it?

  Tom Baker

  People, Laughing, Approval

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• Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

  Michael Mewshaw

  Prayer, Astonishment, Knees

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• The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, I love children because they're so honest. There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent's signature like a child.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Eye, Kgb

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• Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

  Andrew Marr

  Mind, News, Sticks

  Andrew Marr (2009). “My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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• A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rotten, Littles

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• Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

  Maya Angelou

  Shining, Tears, Rings

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• Laughter may or may not activate the endorphins or enhance respiration, as some medical researchers contend. What seems clear, however, is that laughter is an antidote to apprehension and panic.

  Norman Cousins

  May, Panic, Medical

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• Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

  Barbara Johnson

  Pain, Stress, Giving

  Barbara Johnson (2005). “Daily Splashes of Joy: 365 Gems to Sparkle Your Day”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Were I to sum up the Basle Congress in a word- which I shall guard against pronouncing publicly- it would be this: 'At Basle, I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today, I would be answered by universal laughter. If not in 5 years, certainly in 50, everyone will know it.'

  Theodor Herzl

  Israel, Years, Today

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• There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.

  Madeleine Stowe

  Morning, Believe, Events

  Mohican Press interview, March 25, 2005.

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• May this marriage be blessed.May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey.May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine.May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree.May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise.May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter.May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky.Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

  Rumi

  Love, Sweet, Blessed

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• Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

  Walt Whitman

  Ambition, Sleep, Night

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Leaves of Grass”, p.189, Bantam Classics

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• To one degree or another, everybody is connected to the Mystery, and everybody secretly yearns to expand the connection. That requires expanding the soul. These things can enlarge the soul: laughter, danger, imagination, meditation, wild nature, passion, compassion, psychedelics, beauty, iconoclasm, and driving around in the rain with the top down. These things can diminish it: fear, bitterness, blandness, trendiness, egotism, violence, corruption, ignorance, grasping, shining, and eating ketchup on cottage cheese.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Ignorance, Passion

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• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  Hippocrates

  Pain, Mistake, Grief

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.

  August Wilson

  Mother, Song, Art

  August Wilson (1997). “Seven Guitars”, p.10, Penguin

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• What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Running, Pie, Laughing

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