Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

Liz Carpenter

Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing.

Lisa Vanderpump

Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all!

Lloyd Jones

I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew my dad as a child knows a parent, as a sort of crude outline filled in with one or two colors. I’d never seen my father scared or cry. I’d never heard him admit to any wrongdoing. I have no idea what he dreamed of. And once I’d seen a smile pinned to one cheek and darkness to the other when my mum had yelled at him. Now he was gone, and I was left with just an impression—one of male warmth, big arms, and loud laughter.

Louise Rennison

Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter.

Lord Byron

Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

Lord Byron

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life's strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return--Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.

Lord Byron

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

Lord Byron

Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after.

Lord Chesterfield

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Lord Chesterfield

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The highest state is laughter.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Laughter is the language of the heart

Mahatma Gandhi

I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Gail Carson Levine

And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after.

Frida Kahlo

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

Julie Garwood

Lyon knew she wasn't aware she was being watched, either. She wouldn't have eaten the leaf otherwise, or reached for another. “Sir, which one is Princess Christina?” Andrew asked Lyon, just as Rhone started in choking on his laughter. Rhone has obviously been watching Christina, too. “Sir?” “The blond-headed one,” Lyon muttered, shaking his head. He watched in growing disbelief as Christina daintily popped another leaf into her mouth. “Which blond-headed one?” Andrew persisted. “The one eating the shrubs.

Jules Renard

We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

Jules Renard

Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper.

Josh Billings

When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

Josh Billings

Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments.

Pamela Anderson

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Ouida

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Paul Krassner

English is my second language. Laughter is my first.

Maggie Stiefvater

There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.

Gustave Flaubert

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

John Dryden

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Longchenpa

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

Jim Valvano

Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

John Cleese

Laughter is a force for democracy.