There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
~By James Boswell ~
Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
~By Joseph Gallivan ~
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
~By Paul McCartney ~
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
~By James Thurber ~
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
~By Mark Twain ~
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
~By Victor Borge ~
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 ~
Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
~By Karl Shapiro ~
Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
~By Mary Pickford ~
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
~By Allen Klein ~
It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
~By George Ade ~
Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.
~By Michael Aston ~
You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.
~By Gilda Radner ~
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
~By Gail Parent ~
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 ~
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.
~By Henri La Fontaine ~
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 ~
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
~By Randy West ~
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 ~
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 ~
The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.
~By James Thurber ~
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
~By Kris Kristofferson ~
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
~By Jerry Garcia ~
I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.
~By Paul Lynde ~
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
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 think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.
~By Tom Hooper ~
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
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 ~
He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.
~By Henri Bergson ~
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 ~
Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.
~By George P. Baker ~
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
~By Jeanette Rankin ~
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
~By Bob Newhart ~
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
~By August Wilson ~
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
~By Bennett Cerf ~
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 ~
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 believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
~By Bill Cosby ~
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
~By Carol Channing ~
I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.
~By Jim Dale ~
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 ~
Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.
~By Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf ~
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
~By Mark Twain ~
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
~By Bill Hicks ~
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
~By Francois Rabelais ~
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
~By Todd Solondz ~
I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.
~By David Walliams ~
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
~By Publilius Syrus ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
~By Mort Walker ~
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
~By Mort Walker ~
What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.
~By Joseph Barbera ~
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
~By George Washington ~
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
~By Jello Biafra ~
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.
~By Roger Zelazny ~
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
~By Stephen King ~
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
~By Gordon W. Allport ~
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
~By Malcolm Muggeridge ~
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.
~By Will Durst ~
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
~By George Gurdjieff ~
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
~By Cat Stevens ~
The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it.
~By Thaksin Shinawatra ~
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Does anyone remember laughter?
~By Robert Plant ~
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
~By Karl Barth ~
You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
~By Aaron McGruder ~
Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
~By Eileen Caddy ~
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
~By Lenny Bruce ~
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
~By Lao Tzu ~
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
~By Bobby Sands ~
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
~By Joseph Heller ~
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
~By Tacitus ~
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
~By Allen Klein ~
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