Quotes about laughter
laughter littles rotten
A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one. Charles Spurgeon
laughter believe miracle
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence. Alan Watts
laughter real anxiety
Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
laughter laughing doubt
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Alan Alda
laughter tears may
May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears! Aiden Wilson Tozer
laughter thinking skeletons
Mosquito [...] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. "How much longer do you think you will live?" she asked. "You are already a skeleton." Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive. Chinua Achebe
laughter laughing mind
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. Edmond de Goncourt
laughter oxygen
I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter. Dawn Powell
laughter shows
I have always liked shows that have laughter in them. David Walliams
laughter successful unique
Laughter is a unique medicine that places your problems in perspective, relaxes your tense muscles, reassures those around you, and helps you to enjoy life even when you don't have everything you want. A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley
laughter mind theatre
In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go. Beatrice Lillie
laughter people laughing
I love people who make me laugh! Audrey Hepburn
laughter anger light
I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter. Audre Lorde
laughter writing two
That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled. Diablo Cody
laughter shows malicious
If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it. Denis Norden
laughter eye hands
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves. Denise Levertov
laughter air cities
I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief. Kurt Vonnegut
laughter hate thinking
People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
laughter men laughing
The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news. Bertolt Brecht
laughter dark night
Nate stared, slack-jawed as the cab merged with the traffic and became impossible to spot. That was it. They chose each other. Just then, the dark sky lit up with fireworks. A cab sailing the street honked in celebration . In the night air , Nate thought he could hear Serena and Blairs' laughter, though he knew that was impossible; they were too far away by now. But as we know, in this city anything is possible Cecily von Ziegesar
laughter medicine laughing
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. Carol Vorderman
laughter serious reason
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused. Agnes Repplier
laughter spring heart
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
laughter memories cheer
We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.
laughter spring heartless
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
laughter dust laughing
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
laughter heart silence
As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conceives; though I daresay it would be silent on much the heart experiences. Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor. Charlotte Bronte
laughter believe hatred
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror Charlie Chaplin
laughter laughing hundred
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. Charles Lamb
laughter eye thinking
I stroked Eric's hair, tucking some behind his ear. His eyes on mine were intent, and I knew he was waiting for me to speak. "I wish," I said, "I could save orgasms in a jar for when i need them, because I think I had a few extra." Eric's eyes widened, and all of a sudden he roared with laughter. (Dead to the World) Charlaine Harris
laughter hate heart
I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know. Charles Baudelaire
laughter nice men
I talked to one accountant, a very nice fellow who I would have been glad to have his family marry into mine. He said, "What these other accounting firms have done is very unethical. The [tax avoidance scheme] works best if it's not found out [by the IRS], so we only give it to our best clients, not the rest, so it's unlikely to be discovered. So my firm is better than the others." [Laughter] I'm not kidding. And he was a perfectly nice man. People just follow the crowd...Their mind just drifts off in a ghastly way... Charlie Munger
laughter laughing natural
Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it. Bill Maher