Laughter Quotes - Page 9

• I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

  Woody Allen

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "'Nothing Pleases Me More than Being Thought of as a European Filmmaker'". Interview with Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. June 20, 2005.

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• He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Tales, Folly, Impertinence

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• I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

  Francois Rabelais

  Writing, Men, Laughing

  "The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (Introduction)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1532-1564.

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• Laughter is inner jogging.

  Norman Cousins

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

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• Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Entrepreneur, Decision

  "Incidentals". Book by Carl Sandburg, 1904.

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

  Jane Austen

  Funny, Sports, Laughing

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 57 (1813)

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• The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Happiness, Success, Congratulations

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

  W. C. Fields

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

  Helen Hayes

  Education, Book, Feet

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  Carl Sagan

  Funny, Brother, Philosophy

  Broca's Brain ch. 5 (1979)

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• Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Happiness, Joy, Glory

  'Human Nature' (1650) ch. 9, sect. 13

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• A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

  Herman Melville

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

  "The Complete Works of Herman Melville".

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• Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

  George Herbert

  Witty, Ignorance, Men

  George Herbert (1835). “The Works of George Herbert: Poems”, p.9

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• In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Funny, Humorous, Mind

  'Letters to his Son' (1774) 9 March 1748.

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• If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

  Rajneesh

  Happiness, Stars, Laughing

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• Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Sadness, Laughing

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• So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

  James Clavell

  Fear, Laughing, Bulls

  "Noble House". Book by James Clavell, April 1981.

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• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Crazy

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• You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

  Jonathan Davis

  Laughing, Being Different, Just Thinking Of You

  FaceBook post by Jonathan Davis from Feb 05, 2017

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• A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Children, Crazy

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• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Beauty, Heart

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

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• Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.

  Salma Hayek

  Humor, Laughing, Tough

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• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  Washington Irving

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  Washington Irving (2015). “Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

  Paul Lynde

  Happiness, People, Laughing

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