Top 260 Laughter Quotes

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.

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they’ve all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there’s something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

I say now, if I’m not laughing a whole lot on the first date, you’re pretty much not going to get a second one, I can tell you that. It’s all about the laughter and a good time for me.

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.

I think when people hear my book on Audible, they’ll hear the inflection in my voice, the tone, and understand me a little bit better and understand my family a little bit better in the ways that I tell the stories. Some are told with laughter, and some are told with sadness.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

When you’re with Chris Wylde, there’s never not laughter.

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

It’s true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence – an attitude that if it’s enjoyable it can’t possibly be literature.

My favorite comics are the ones who say funny stuff but also give you the message. They give you the laughter, but there’s also the, ‘Mmm – I didn’t take that into consideration.’

Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that’s appropriate for the character.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

When you’re 14 and you’re with your friends, you laugh about really stupid stuff, but as you get older, the laughter inside you dies. When you’re older, you need a bit of help.

Startup culture fosters laughter, debate, and a passionate, non-politically-correct focus on getting things done. And this startup of culture is something entrepreneurs struggle to maintain as the business grows. To ensure this environment continues, create a strong foundation and ensure everyone is on board.

Life is laughter.

I honestly believe life is a combination of laughter and tears, and it’s almost always better to laugh than to cry.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

‘Ray Donovan’ was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.

Laughter is God’s blessing.

I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

Let us instance one respect in which American life has recently undergone a great change. We allude to its increased devotion to pleasure, to happiness, to dancing, to sport… to the delights of the country, to laughter, and to all forms of cheerfulness.

Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and – most of all – accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn’t show it.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

The important thing, once you get ’em laughing, is to keep ’em laughing until you’re through. With a 90-minute feature, you’ve got to stop the laughter and then pick it up again, which is tough.

Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

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

What I would love to do is more telly comedy. I did a tiny bit in ‘Toast of London’ and was in one episode of Catherine Tate’s ‘Nan.’ I was crying with laughter.

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it’s more than that. It’s an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

I don’t try to sanction other people’s joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy – you know, like fear, desire or laughter – create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films… The boundaries cannot be defined. It’s to each his own.

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.

My biggest pet peeve is when you go to a fine restaurant, and it’s like a mausoleum inside. Good food should be joyful. There should be laughter and chatter, not people sitting there like they’re in a funeral-parlor waiting room.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I’ll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

I keep my skin – especially on my face and neck – out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I’ve got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.

My dad makes me hiss with laughter.

The laugh track was invented to cue the audience to the jokes and encourage laughter in response. But it has another effect: if you hear people laughing and you’re not, you start to question if maybe there’s something wrong with you for not getting it.

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

Comedy is a live art, and the only way to record a comedy rock album is to do it live. The audience and their laughter is just as much a part of the album sound as our music. No retakes, no room for error.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.

Even though standup seems like one-way conversation, if you’re doing it right, it’s actually a two-way discussion between the comic and the audience… the audience just happens to be communicating through laughter.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

I believe that when people try to live their life at the fullest, there’s a certain laughter that comes out of it. The more they try to live their life seriously, the funnier it is.

Laughter kills lonesome. It’s one of the great things in our lives.

I have seen and heard comedians who had really funny ‘stuff’ but yet could not make the people laugh; then, again – I have seen others whose stuff was anything but humorous, and the audience would howl with laughter.

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It’s like nature’s Neosporin.

People come up to me and they thank me: ‘I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.’

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.

My mantra is – eat little less than your hunger level, consume double the quantity of water, your workout must be tripled, and dose of laughter must be four times!

‘Tickle Monster’ is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent and child through tickling and laughter.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

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

I try to find a reason to laugh each day. Somehow, if you can incorporate laughter into your day, every day, it really helps. It’s the little things in life that make me happy.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Laughter cures everything.

The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it’s not scripted. It’s more of a conversation with my audience. And that’s what people like about the show – it’s very real. There are mistakes and laughter.

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different.

I don’t tend to read much comedy, but there’s a fake advertisement section at the end of Derren Brown’s book ‘Pure Effect’ which always makes me cry with laughter every time I come across it.

Audience laughter, when it’s deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.

I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.

I don’t have a particular type of woman. But I like to have fun and, while looks will go some way, laughter is extremely important.

A lot of sexism is just very silly… and the best response is laughter and ridicule.

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.

If Heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.

So actually, for me, ‘Doctor Who,’ you want it to be the show with all the emotions and all the feels, really, and that you’ve had a good emotional workout, from laughter to tears to fear and excitement.

Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.

There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.

I’ve kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I’m doing.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

The one thing I think I’ve noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they’ve sort of become routinized, so there’s an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don’t question. It was a gift from God.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

Laughter is inner jogging.

I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There’s admiration for people I admire, but it’s not guttural laughter. It’s a wry ‘Oh, well done, sir.’ But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

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

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

Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one’s emotions, and of failure to repress the soul’s frivolity by a stern use of reason.

Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

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

Growing up, I was always enthralled by Ronnie Barker. He made my dad howl with laughter, which always intrigued me, and he had the rare gift of being as good a performer as he was a writer.

Even in my comedies, I don’t take anger as a joke. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. One of the things I like about a character: I always think it’s fascinating when a character can turn on a dime and go from one emotion to another. I like watching that.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

The highest state is laughter.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

I like Robo Shankar – he evokes laughter, he has a unique body language and style. I loved all scenes of his in ‘Maari.’

Humor was a big part of my childhood. My family was full of comedians. We’d sit around the dinner table and try to one-up each other. It sometimes ended in tears, but usually in laughter.

If I were to distill my household, it was a passion for social justice and a love for food and laughter.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I like laughter around me.

Some of the best jokes are about funerals or people dying or whatever. Laughter and tears are two sides of the same coin.

Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I’ve made great friends through acting. When I’m with Victoria Wood and Julie Walters, we have grand fun. We can make each other howl with laughter because we know each other so well.

Falling in love is a chemical reaction. But it wears off in a year. That’s why you need a strong line of communication… which includes laughter.

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

In ‘Malvolio,’ the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It’s an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves – and maybe a smile.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‘I love you, love your work.’ And then the next sentence is, ‘I loved your brother.’ John made people laugh, and laughter is a powerful thing.

I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that.

I’m grateful for laughter of any kind, but it can be off-putting if one person is laughing at a different time or in a different way from the rest of the audience.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

When people say, ‘I don’t like laughter on a TV show’, I think, ‘How do you cope when you’re watching a stand-up gig live?’ – it’s the same thing!

Emperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.

I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the audience either laughs sincerely or they laugh automatically or they don’t laugh. The thing that bothered me was that automatic laugh. I said, that’s not real laughter.

We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

If you became a comedian in the ’80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you’ll find out here’s the other side. You’ll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

I love to make people laugh, and I believe that laughter and song are the best way to help young children learn.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

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.

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.

I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier.

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can’t really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it’s a reaction to genuine horror.

I think laughter is the best medicine. If you can’t laugh at yourself, then you can’t laugh at life and the silliness of it all.

You have to take things with a lot of laughter. I laugh with everyone; this way, I will be able to die happy.

Laughter is God’s blessing.

Dad was, is, and always will be one of the kindest, most generous, gentlest souls I’ve ever known, and while there are few things I know for certain right now, one of them is that not just my world but the entire world is forever a little darker, less colorful, and less full of laughter in his absence.

I tell residents, if you gave me two patients with identical problems, and one of them had family at the bedside with a lot of laughter, plus photos and a quilt from home, and next door was another patient who was alone every time I came by – I’m going to be very nervous about the isolated patient’s mental status.

When I think of the books I love, there’s always a little laughter in the dark.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

I used to do a lot of serious theatre during my school and college days. Comedy was only reserved for youth festival and inter-college competitions. Then once ‘The Great Indian Laughter Challenge’ was launched, a regional channel in Punjab started a program based on that. I participated in it and emerged as the winner.

I have a pretty diverse audience, and that makes me happy – laughter is universal, and I don’t differentiate between people at all. Why should I? People are people. There’s no reason why one person can’t relate to any other person on this planet in some way or another.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.

Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

All preconceptions when you laugh go out the window. Laughter kills it.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

I don’t need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

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

I believe that laughter is the best emotional Band-Aid in the world. It’s like nature’s Neosporin.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A ‘naughty pickle’ is how I’d best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you’re dealing with fear or laughter – emotions that happen spontaneously – you hope it’s working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.

It’s extraordinary to hear waves of laughter after you’ve been playing something, night after night, to nothing. That’s why I’m still hooked on acting: the terror of the possibility of things going wrong, the thrill when they go right, and the joy of the company.

I remember that the day I finished ‘The Angels,’ part three of ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’, I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.

Every joke in ‘The Office’ was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I’ve got a dry sense of humor.

I like the sound of laughter. I was the guy in the group of friends that would always make the friends laugh. And everyone was like, ‘You should do stand up,’ so I gave it a shot, and ta-da! They were right.

If Heaven exists, to know that there’s laughter, that would be a great thing.

I very rarely laugh. I remember I used to have a joy at comedy. I remember going to see Sean Lock for the first time live, just in some comedy club when I was 18, and again, just guttural, pure laughter. I didn’t know what he was doing; I couldn’t see the tricks.

‘Up in the Air’ may be a glossy production sprinkled with laughter and sex, but it captures the distinctive topography of our Great Recession as vividly as a far more dour Hollywood product of 70 years ago, ‘The Grapes of Wrath,’ did the vastly different landscape of the Great Depression.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

All comedy is funny because it tells us truths that we recognise through laughter, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be unnerving. Think of ‘Fawlty Towers’; it can be very, very dark, but by God, it’s funny. The two things are not in opposition.

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you’re emotions going.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

I’d like someone tall, dark and nice. Independent and confident. Not a macho man. Perhaps a little bit girly, in a way. The key for me is if we can cry with laughter.

I feel now it’s useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I’ve decided if I can make people laugh, I’m making a more important contribution.

I know that money is precious – but, at least to me, laughter and expression are even more so.

Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter – there’s always something happening in the country and in the world. That’s why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

With my work, I always want to people to just forget about anything stressful going on in their lives and be fully entertained. Laughter is key. If they shed a tear or go home thinking about the play, that’s a bonus.

If you laugh, we just do another take. Laughter is too rare nowadays. If you can bust a gut, let it go, and we’ll just go back to one.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

If I can bring a little light, love, and laughter into my environment, it’s a win.

There’s something really special, and addictive, about making that connection with an audience – knowing that they may never have seen you before, and may never see you again, but that for those moments you’ve been able to unite them all in laughter, and provide the escape that lies in that involuntary response.

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

If you have physical ailments, you will get everyone’s compassion, but when you have a mental ailment, you will get laughter, unfortunately. This is because it is very difficult to make out when somebody is sick and when somebody is being stupid.

Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

Laughter is such a healing thing, and through laughter, we find commonalities with each other. There’s a lot of separation in the world, and by creating more things to laugh at, we can create a common ground for open discussion.

Many of my 20- and 30-something peers struggle with student loan debt and high rent, and more than once, I’ve erupted in laughter at the idea that I will collect any Social Security in my Betty White years.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

That’s also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it’s really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

If I grow older like my mum, I’ll be happy. She’s never touched her face. She has laughter lines but looks lovely.

I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times.

Naming me ‘Twinkle’ was a foolproof way of making sure that I would get teased throughout my life, have immigration officers at various airports stare at my passport and shake with hysterical laughter, and strangers stalk me with WhatsApp messages like, ‘Twinkle, Twinkle, little star, I hope you get hit by a car!’

This happens to be that the power of laughter and love would beat out the power of fear every time. You know, I hate to sound corny about it but it’s true, and I think that’s what this movie is about.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter – like a wail – acknowledges and replies to pain.

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that’s because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

It’s a very simple answer, how to get my abs so defined. I have a very healthy diet of a lot of laughter. If you laugh all the time, you’re consistently flexing your abdominals all the time.

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That’s really what I think fills my tank.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The highest state is laughter.

What I love is the comedy of the body. It’s a little highfalutin’, but you can even say pre-verbal comedy. People laugh differently at stuff that isn’t brought to them via the spoken word. It’s from a different place; it’s a different quality of laughter.

Do you know what I think of when I remember him? I think: He was such a kid. He taught me how to swim when I was 4 and how to ride a bike. So when I think of Martin Luther King, I think of laughter. I think of the play and the fun.

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

There’s no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You’ll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.

Shared laughter is erotic too.

It’s really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.

It’s awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you’ve brought to their lives.

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

Laughter can bring a new perspective.

I’ve got a lot of laughter lines. You don’t get laughter lines on your face without having a lot of fun in your life.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There’s an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

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.

There’s enough hard stuff going on in people’s lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don’t have to put that in a Christian compartment.

The video for ‘Last Christmas’ was shot in the early winter of 1984 in the Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee. It was a glorious affair, and the two days we spent shooting it were a riot of laughter and fun, which I think comes across.

My grandmother, grandfather, my mom – we’ve always been driven by laughter. It’s what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.

I’ve always felt that desire. To get a woman to throw back her head in laughter is a hot thing.

Laughter is really a gift. It’s the most vulnerable state you can be in.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.

I know it’s corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.