Laughter Quotes - Page 16

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Even the gods love jokes.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Remember laughing? Laughter enhances the blood flow to the body’s extremities and improves cardiovascular function. Laughter releases endorphins and other natural mood elevating and pain-killing chemicals, improves the transfer of oxygen and nutrients to internal organs. Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom I have repeatedly and urgently requested to look at the moon and planets through my glass, [telescope] which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here? what shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly! and to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa laboring before the grand duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.

Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it. . . For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!

I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man