44 Laughter Quotes

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

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.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.

1. Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph. 2. Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. 3. Laughter is the bark of delight of a gregarious animal at the proximity of its kind. 4. Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. 5. Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. 6. Laughter is the emotion of tragic delight. 7. Laughter is the female of Tragedy. 8. Laughter is the strong elastic fish, caught in Styx, springing and flapping about until it dies. 9. Laughter is the sudden handshake of mystic violence and the anarchist. 10. Laughter is the mind sneezing. 11. Laughter is the one obvious commotion that is not complex, or in expression dynamic. 12. Laughter does not progress. It is primitive, hard and unchangeable.

Strange, when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.

:the passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly:

Pour ce que rire est le propre de l'homme.

There was a laughing devil in his sneer.

I remember that she made me laugh more than I liked; for I was, at that time, an eager scholar of ethics, and had tasted the sweets of solitude and stoicism, and I found something profane in the hours of amusing gossip into which she drew me...

[The human race], in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon - laughter.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

I don't know what you're laughting about, Bell, but you've laughed at me for the last time.

(asked about his lunatic laugh) It is a nervous laugh, yes, but it's also a laugh- I have to laugh when I imagine the walking monstrosity that I was. And now I'm a free man. (laughs hysterically)

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.

When they laugh at one of my jokes... it just gets me right here. [Places his hand on his heart]

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

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.

The world laughs at another man's pain.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

She laughed - a solo effort. Nothing in the prevailing circumstances made me feel like turning it into a duet.

Make the sure one laugh, was she in stone? She will melt.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

She was one of the most alive people I ever met-such exuberance-and she had this laugh in her that filled her from head to toe. ~ Dustin Hoffman

Nicht durch Zorn, sondern durch Lachen todtet ma

Brian Pillman and Owen Hart start laughing*