Laughter quotes

Never laugh at live dragons. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything. Marilyn Monroe
When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. Eleanor Roosevelt
(also about
Inspiration)

Laughter quotes by Charles Chaplin

Also about
Happiness, Pain
A day without laughter is a day wasted. To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.
But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! Edgar Allan Poe
(also about
Death)

Laughter quotes by Victor Hugo

Also about
Advice, Suffering
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered. Napoleon Bonaparte
(also about
Women)
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. George Gordon Byron
(also about
Stupidity)
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. Woody Allen
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. Martin Luther
(also about
Heaven)

Laughter quotes by Stephen King

Also about
Literature, Creativity, Tragedy, Writing, Memory, Immortality
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.
There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Charles Dickens
(also about
Humour, Smile)
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth. Benjamin Franklin
(also about
Envy, Vanity)
A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. Chuck Palahniuk
(also about
Love)
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. Moliere
(also about
Humour, Entertainment)
I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut. Andy Kaufman
(also about
Emotions, Humour, Sadness, Anger, Feedback)
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(also about
People, Soul)

Laughter quotes by Lewis Carroll

Also about
Joy, Wit, Fun
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. Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand. Oprah Winfrey
(also about
Inspiration, Life, Happiness, Joy, Optimism)
They lived and laughed and loved and left. James Joyce
(also about
Love, Life)
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? Joanne Rowling
(also about
Emotions, Teen, Internet)
He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news. Bertolt Brecht
(also about
Optimism, News)
Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion. Jane Austen
(also about
Persuasion)
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. Jack Kerouac
(also about
Criticism, Individuality, Public Opinion, Great)

Laughter quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Also about
Psychology, Optimism, Misery, Tears, Neurosis, Age, Maturity, Disappointment
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
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
(also about
Sweet, Sadness, Songs, Pain, Poems)
Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. Thomas Mann
(also about
Soul)
A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. Graham Greene
(also about
Solitude)