We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives.

I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands....

Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.

Four laughs vibrate in harmony,WarmDeliciousReal.

First of all I express sincerity. There’s also that sense of humor, by which people sometimes learn to laugh about themselves. I mean, the situation is so serious that the people could go crazy because...

The more laws, the more offenders.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Kid, don’t miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.

When Death laughs, no one else does

You gotta laugh because if you didn’t you’d cry

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

The curve of her smile, the curve of the small of her back, the curve of her laugh, everything about her makes me want to be more well-rounded.

Laughter feels like our flotation device — it won’t pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived how...

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:The past, present, and future walk into a bar—it was tense.

I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Halt eyed them balefully. They were all being so obvious about not mentioning his sudden reappearance that it was even worse than if they had commented on it…’Oh, go on!’ he said. ‘Somebody say something!...

Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn’t it?

What the hell?” Ian asked, holding his hands over the front of his Christmas briefs. Sara had ordered them from the Internet, and he’d worn them to please her. Too bad there hadn’t been enough...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would...

,La risa? ¡Qué cosa extraña! Es un temblor alegre que corre por dentro, como las ardillas por un árbol hueco. Pero luego restalla en la cintura, y hace aflojar las rodillas…

The child’s laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.

Did you bite someone?’ Jack enquired.’I laughed at people, which is much worse. My laughter has sharper teeth than any dog. It tears people apart who wish to be taken seriously, but I could not...

Laughter from yesterday that makes the heart giggle today brightens the perspective for tomorrow.

I want to invent a Laughometer, a device to measure and gauge humor, which would be used for comedians. And politicians.

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

It made me laugh, so I put it in.

Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.

Religious people are not fun… So, Jesus shows up and kids run around Him, want to be with Him. You know why? He’s fun… God’s a Father who likes His kids to have fun, so...

Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

You know what the doctor said to me to cheer me up?” Fat said. “There are worse diseases than cancer.””Did he show you slides?”We both laughed. When you are nearly crazy with grief, you laugh...

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

I’m at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

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...

We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was due to the wine, but there was much more to it than that. There...

There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.

Life is too important to take seriously.

Laughter is poison to fear.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Elder’s Meditation of the Day – February 18 “laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is...

He bursts out laughing. It’s short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction’s already mine.