Laughter Quotes - Page 30

• ... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed.

  Dorothy Hewett

  Wisdom, Tears, Bed

  Dorothy Hewett (1968). “Windmill country”

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• Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history, at the continuing impact of colonization, and at the biting knowledge that living as an exile in one's own land necessitates. . . . Certainly the time frame we presently inhabit has much that is shabby and tricky to offer; and much that needs to be treated with laughter and ironic humor.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Land, Impact, Ironic

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• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Morning, Boredom, Ribald

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

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• The glance embroiders in joy, knits in pain, and sews in boredom. When indifferent, the eye takes stills, when interested, movies. Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Pain, Eye, Bored

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• As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Men, Civilization

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.253, Penguin

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• When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

  Doris Roberts

  Happiness, Cousin, Play

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• Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.

  Benito Mussolini

  Education, Inspiration, Littles

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• Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give these youngsters a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find hope at St. Jude - a place where miracles can and do happen.

  Marlo Thomas

  Children, Cancer, Health

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• There was passion, there was laughter
  The first morning after
  I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground
  Everytime we were together
  We talked about forever
  I was certain it was Heaven
  We had found.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Morning, Passion

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• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Teaching, Heart, Eye

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• Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

  Oliver Herford

  Wine, Giving, Gold

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Wine, Wrinkles

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.315

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• That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Children, Sunset

  Remarks by the President on Climate Change, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

  Larry Gelbart

  Inspirational, Humor, Sense Of Humor

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• Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Grace, Form

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.

  Umberto Eco

  Love, Pain, Opposites

  "The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

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• I think that because this is a moral universe, then right will prevail, goodness will prevail, compassion will prevail, laughter will prevail, love, caring, sharing will prevail. Because we are made for goodness. We are made for love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Caring, Thinking, Compassion

  Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but when he came to, he had forgotten it. At last, with immense effort, he wrote down the secret before the vision had faded. When completely recovered, he rushed to see what he had written. It was 'A smell of petroleum prevails throughout'.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Smell, Laughing

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.109, Routledge

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• Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

  William Shakespeare

  Mistress, Mirth, Twelfth Night Important

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 3, l. [42]

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• The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Malicious, Sneer

  Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces”, p.133

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• I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

  Robert Burns

  Friendship, Please Me, Laughing

  Robert Burns (1825). “The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing His Poems, Letters, Songs, His Letters to Clarinda, and the Whole of His Suppressed Poems: with an Essay on His Life, Genius, and Character [signed: J. B.]. MS. Notes”, p.440

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• The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughing, Deception, Life Is

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• What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pardon, Said, Provoking

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.208

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• Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

  Robert South

  Art, World, Mirth

  ROBERT SOUTH (1866). “SERMONS SEVERAL OCCASIONS”, p.495

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• To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

  Honore de Balzac

  Joining In, Joining, Effects

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