1,453 Quotes About Laughter

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams.

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.