Laughter Quotes - Page 15

I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.

Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

At a banquet Caligula was suddenly seized with a fit of helpless laughter. The consuls reclining next to him asked if they might share in the imperial merriment. Caligula, wiping the tears from his eyes, managed to gasp, "You'll never guess! It suddenly occurred to me that I had only to give a single nod, and both your throats would be cut on the spot."

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

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.

If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.