Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~By Bob Newhart ~
Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter. ~By Karl Liebknecht ~
From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter. ~By Zac Efron ~
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. ~By Eileen Caddy ~
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters. ~By Allen Klein ~
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ~By Alice Meynell ~
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. ~By Doris Roberts ~
If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian. ~By Linda McCartney ~
I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. ~By Judy Garland ~
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. ~By George Eliot ~
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 ~
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 is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. ~By Max Eastman ~
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 ~
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. ~By Linda Ellerbee ~
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 ~
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
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 ~
It is important that gang members are aware that if they engage in aggravated assault, maiming, kidnapping, or manslaughter that they will receiving a minimum sentence of 30 years. ~By Albert Wynn ~
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. ~By Carroll O'Connor ~
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 ~
Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds. ~By Henri La Fontaine ~
More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002. ~By Elton Gallegly ~
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. ~By Victor Borge ~
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 ~
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. ~By Francoise Sagan ~
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, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. ~By Allen Klein ~
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 ~
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian. ~By Paul McCartney ~
Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. ~By George Gurdjieff ~
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. ~By Publilius Syrus ~
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour. ~By Henri Bergson ~
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 enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly. ~By Roger Zelazny ~
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~By Gordon W. Allport ~
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 ~
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 ~
Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. ~By Daphne Zuniga ~
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. ~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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 ~
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 ~
Does anyone remember laughter? ~By Robert Plant ~
If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. ~By George Washington ~
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 ~
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. ~By Robert Fulghum ~
I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter. ~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit. ~By Bill Hicks ~
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 ~
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. ~By Agnes Repplier ~
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ~By George Byron ~
I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order. ~By Ion Antonescu ~
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 ~
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. ~By Max Beerbohm ~
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. ~By Kurt Vonnegut ~
I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter. ~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. ~By Mark Twain ~
What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. ~By Martha Beck ~
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. ~By Woody Allen ~
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 ~
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 I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. ~By Victor Borge ~
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. ~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
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 ~
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? ~By Robert Plant ~
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. ~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
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 ~
Nobody ever died of laughter. ~By Max Beerbohm ~
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. ~By Mason Cooley ~
Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight. ~By Barbara Schapiro ~
Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. ~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again. ~By Joseph Gallivan ~
When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter. ~By Yakov Smirnoff ~
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 ~
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 ~
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? ~By Lao Tzu ~
A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ~By Bennett Cerf ~
Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. ~By Red Skelton ~
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. ~By William Shakespeare ~
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. ~By Josh Billings ~
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. ~By Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus ~
Shared laughter is erotic too. ~By Marge Piercy ~
A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~By Hugh Sidey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. ~By Chuck Jones ~
The house of laughter makes a house of woe. ~By Edward Young ~
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 ~
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 ~
The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter. ~By Wilfred Owen ~
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 ~
Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. ~By Margaret Sackville ~
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 ~
I was disappointed, not because we had lost the war but because our people had allowed it to go on for so many years, instead of heeding the few voices of protest against all that mass insanity and slaughter. ~By George Grosz ~
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