Laughter Quotes

Earth laughs in flowers.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Bruce Lee

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Does anyone remember laughter?
Robert Plant

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. Cummings

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Bill Hicks

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me.After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
Ray Bradbury

Last night I dreamt I ate a ten pound marshmallow. When I woke up the pillow was gone.
Tommy Cooper

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
Tommy Cooper

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'
Tommy Cooper

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.
Bruce Willis

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.
Magic Johnson

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Cat Stevens

People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.
Serj Tankian

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man.
Lenny Bruce

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - The sinners are much more fun.

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
Jim Valvano

We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
John Irving

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope

I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
Larry David

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

I love doing comedy - I get a laugh out of it, it's not so serious.
Carmen Electra

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hear ted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
Jason Mraz

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun.
Jerry Seinfeld

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

“People aren’t as stupid as the politicians think. More and more of us are laughing off our “civic duty” to vote, rejecting the role of compulsory constituent.”
Bob Black

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
Mike Myers

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.
Ann Landers

You can't just yell jokes at people.
David Cross

I was considered by my peers to be a good comedian. So that's all I ever strived to do was get some recognition from my peers.
Ron White

I know only two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.
Elizabeth Wurtzel