We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
Joseph Heller

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

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
Ringo Starr

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
Joseph Barbera

When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.
Doris Roberts

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.
Reba McEntire

When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
Todd Solondz

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
Lewis Carroll

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

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

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
Gilda Radner