Quotes
Quotes about Laughter
I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.
And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
At the camel auction slaughterhouse the camel lot the rejected creatures see no Camelot.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
