Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Darwin

Describing laughter: The sound is produced by a deep inspiration followed by short, interrupted, spasmodic contractions of the chest, and especially the diaphragm... the mouth is open more or less widely, with the corners drawn much backwards, as well as a little upwards; and the upper lip is somewhat raised.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

Bono

Laughter is eternity if joy is real.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

Aristophanes

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

Edward Young

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

Elie Wiesel

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

Coventry Patmore

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?'

Anne Lamott

You know how I always say that laughter is carbonated holiness? Well, Robin was the ultimate proof of that, and bubbles are spirit made visible.

Anne Lamott

Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness

Anne Lamott

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Albert Brooks

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

Amanda Palmer

I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

D. H. Lawrence

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

D. H. Lawrence

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

David Archuleta

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart.

Donna Tartt

I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.

Dan Jenkins

Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

Dylan Moran

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.

Amy Davis

Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around.

Anais Nin

If I fall asleep, it is because I am overloaded. I sleep because one hour with Henry contains five years of my life, and one phrase, one caress answers the expectations of a hundred nights. When I hear him laugh, I say, "I have heard Rabelais.". And I swallow his laughter like bread and wine.

Anne Fortier

She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was, I was clearly missing it. It was so much more than just self-confidence; it seemed to be the ability to love oneself, enthusiastically and unsparingly, body and soul, naturally followed by the assumption that every man on the planet is dying to get in on the act.

Chuck Jones

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

Christopher Reeve

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Christopher Morley

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.

Andrew Carnegie

There is very little success where there is very little laughter.

Anne Taintor

Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

Anne Rivers Siddons

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

Anna Eshoo

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.

Andrew Marr

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

laughter is always fatal to feeling ...