Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
~By Sean Connery ~
Now that I know how supermarket meat is made, I regard eating it as a somewhat risky proposition. I know how those animals live and what's on their hides when they go to slaughter, so I don't buy industrial meat.
~By Michael Pollan ~
Laughter drives shouting away.
~By Indra Devi ~
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.
~By Charles Mackay ~
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
~By Kris Kristofferson ~
More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion.
~By Harvey Milk ~
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
~By Christian Slater ~
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
~By Josh Billings ~
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
~By Chuck Jones ~
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
~By Joan Lunden ~
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
~By Washington Irving ~
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
~By Allen Klein ~
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.
~By Judith Viorst ~
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
~By Robert Plant ~
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.
~By Judy Garland ~
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
~By Linda Ellerbee ~
If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
~By Linda McCartney ~
I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?
~By John Davidson ~
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
~By George Gurdjieff ~
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
~By Henri Bergson ~
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
~By Tacitus ~
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry.
~By Roger Ascham ~
I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.
~By David Walliams ~
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.
~By Allen Klein ~
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
~By Walter Annenberg ~
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
~By John Gibbon ~
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.
~By Ringo Starr ~
The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.
~By Raoul Vaneigem ~
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
~By Roy Jenkins ~
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.
~By Tom Hiddleston ~
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
~By Milan Kundera ~
From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
~By Zac Efron ~
I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.
~By Larry David ~
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
~By Gail Parent ~
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
~By Joseph Addison ~
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.
~By Katie Price ~
Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.
~By Anacreon ~
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
~By Lucille Ball ~
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
~By Mason Cooley ~
What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order.
~By Ion Antonescu ~
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
~By Gordon W. Allport ~
The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
~By Henry Walter Bates ~
Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
~By Jasper Carrott ~
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
~By Roger Zelazny ~
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Although lynchings have steadily increased in number and barbarity during the last twenty years, there has been no single effort put forth by the many moral and philanthropic forces of the country to put a stop to this wholesale slaughter.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
~By Henri Bergson ~
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
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.
~By Lewis Carroll ~
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.
~By Jim Valvano ~
Laughter is inner jogging.
~By Norman Cousins ~
More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
~By Victor Borge ~
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
~By Helen Hayes ~
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.
~By Sophocles ~
Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
~By James Boswell ~
From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
~By Hilaire Belloc ~
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
~By George Byron ~
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
~By Chuck Jones ~
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.
~By John Irving ~
Shared laughter is erotic too.
~By Marge Piercy ~
There is little success where there is little laughter.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
~By Peter Ustinov ~
Our shows are packed with laughter and light-hearted songs to lift the listener from their everyday life. We encourage the audience to participate in any way.
~By Jason Mraz ~
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
~By Mort Walker ~
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
~By Bill Hicks ~
I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.
~By Soleil Moon Frye ~
This is a big deal. My wife and I sat in our home and we watched those young men get slaughtered on the streets of Mogadishu in the absence of a plan. It broke our heart.
~By Dick Armey ~
Does anyone remember laughter?
~By Robert Plant ~
Nobody ever died of laughter.
~By Max Beerbohm ~
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
~By Mark Twain ~
As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of these slaughters continue without doing anything.
~By Alex Morrison ~
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
~By Joseph Addison ~
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
~By Gilda Radner ~
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
~By Paul McCartney ~
I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.
~By Twyla Tharp ~
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