Laughter Quotes

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
Judy Garland

Try, Bring, Tears

If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Powerful, Kindness

There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes

Love, Parents, Before

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
Victor Hugo

Smile, Joy, Tears

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.
Red Skelton

Life, Happiness, Live

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Friendship, Best, Bad

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

Life, Gratitude, Joy

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Vacation, Instant

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Remember, Tears, Smiles

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Love, Humor, Heart

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.
Cat Stevens

Looking, Cry, Knew

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Carroll O'Connor

Life, Joy, Hollywood

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Pain, Thought, Before

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle

Human, Reason, Privileges

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

Said, Maturity, Bitter

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands

Revenge, Children

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King

Long, Down, Wants

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
Will Durst

Hope, Fear, Comedy

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

Wisdom, Defeat, Listen

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.
Wavy Gravy

Life, Laugh, Either

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Half, Vain

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

Love, Truth, Spirit

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson

Love, Work, Truth

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Yakov Smirnoff

Love, Key, Treasure

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

Beauty, Heart, Two

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
Washington Irving

Humor, Good, Small

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.
Steve Martin

Real, Laugh, Moment

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce

Does anyone remember laughter?
Robert Plant

Remember, Anyone

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