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.

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.

,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.

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...

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.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

Oh, don’t go on like that!” cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. “Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you’ve come today. Consider what o’clock it is....

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Take the road less traveled…there’s less traffic!!!

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.

It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air. I was saying something that was making her laugh, and I couldn’t stop looking at her. It was a little bit chilly, and...

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days....

Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn’t it?

I remember I laughed so hard I cried. But my response was half appropriate, because I was at a funeral.

Good thing you don’t own a mirror, Mr. Mirrorless, or you’d see how ugly you are. -What makes you think I don’t own a mirror? Every face that ever looks at me tells me that...

Even amidst tragedy there is laughter, sometimes farce. The degree of farce depends on who is running the tragedy.