Laugh Quotes

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
J. K. Rowling

Time, Remember, Why

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham

Humor, Angry, Tolerance

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning

Eyes, Keep, Here

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
Steven Spielberg

Time, Good, Smile

I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Baruch Spinoza

Hate, Human, Understand

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.
Paula Deen

Funny, Care, Haters

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.
Steve Martin

Life, School, Ego

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana

Fool, Young, Older

Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
Richard J. Needham

Strong, Mistakes, Become

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

Tender, Brutality, Mix

Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.
Ann Coulter

Love, Work, Patriotism

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.
Giacomo Casanova

Time, Past, Enjoy

The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you're cute', I'll say thank you, but I appreciate it much more when the other one says 'you make me laugh so much'.
Michael J. Fox

Mean, Two, Walk

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere

Strange, Enterprise

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

Why, Often, Comedy

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
Steve Martin

Love, School, Yourself

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Brad Garrett

Life, Happiness, Smile

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine

Person, Himself, Knows

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

Humor, Surprise, Physical

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia Woolf

Age, Run, Steps

I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
Kate Bosworth

Time, Good, Crazy

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Fun, Friends, Talk

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Charles Lamb

Worth, Market, Groans

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

Makes, Once, Awful

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.
Jessica Brown Findlay

Friends, Young, Wonderful

Barack Obama, foreign policy wizard. I just have to laugh.
Rush Limbaugh

Policy, Foreign, Obama

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien Leigh

Training, Difficult, Comedy

If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

Humor, Crisis, Fight

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