Quotes and Sayings About Laughter
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
-- Aaron Belz -
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.
-- Abe Burrows -
Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?
-- Abigail Reynolds -
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
-- Adam Garcia -
Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.
-- Adolf Hitler -
But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible
-- Adriana Trigiani -
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.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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 springs from the lawless part of our nature.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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!
-- Agnes Repplier -
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
-- Alan Alda -
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
-- Alan Alda -
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
-- Alan Alda -
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
-- Alan Alda -
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 -
I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."
-- Alan D. Eames -
Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the “Aha.†Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay -
I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.
-- Alan Rickman -
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-- Alan Watts -
Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.
-- Alan Watts -
I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
-- Albert Brooks -
The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
-- Albert Brooks -
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
-- Albert Camus -
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
-- Albert Einstein -
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.
-- Alexander Graham Bell
