Laughter Quotes - Page 57

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.

It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

We cannot talk simultaneously about animal rights and the 'humane' slaughter of animals.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

Oxford, in those days, was still a city of aquatint. In her spacious and quiet streets men walked and spoke as they had done in Newman's day; her autumnal mists, her grey springtime, and the rare glory of her summer days - such as that day - when the chestnut was in flower and the bells rang out high and clear over her gables and cupolas, exhaled the soft airs of centuries of youth. It was this cloistral hush which gave our laughter its resonance, and carried it still, joyously, over the intervening clamour.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody.

Charlie Chaplin is the greatest artist of the 20th century. He takes me from laughter to tears in seconds. And he was one of the very first funny men. It's like the original violins were made in Cremona and there's never been any better since. Sometimes the best come right off the bat.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

I am convinced that we as adults must constantly cling to, affirm, and celebrate with our children those things we love, sunsets, laughter, the taste of a good meal, the warmth of a hickory fire shared by real friends, the joy of discovery and accomplishment, the constant surprises of life.

The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death.

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.