Quotation Explorer - 'Laugh'

When you are having a really crappy day, and life seems to be kicking your ass, try to force your self to laugh. If you can achieve a smile and a laugh, you can chase any demons away - L.F. Young
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. - Alan W. Watts
Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away. - Cristen Rodgers
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron
We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. - C. S. Lewis
The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better. - Phil Lester
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it. - Charlie Chaplin
A smile says more than the way you laugh - Petra Hermans
Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. - H. L. Mencken
It better befits a man to laugh than to lament over it. - Seneca
You can't laugh on practice jokes when your whole life seems like one - Rick Riordan
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same: you forget yourself.
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you? - L. M. Montgomery
The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. - Marjorie Pay Hinckley
I laugh when people say they don't like poetry. They listen to poetry every day, what do they think music is? - Shannon Lynette
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde
Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. - Bible
For me, a hearty laugh is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. It's a way of life! - Oksana Rus
Your [...] is a really warm older Hispanic lady who has a beautiful laugh and loves to hug. If you are even a little bit nice to her she will make you feel great and maybe cook you delicious food. - Amy Poehler
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment. - May Sarton
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. - Joseph Addison
Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.
The moment you feel joy, the moment you laugh and change your perception, you change your immunity, your body chemistry, and your whole well-being. - Debasish Mridha
Sing, dance, laugh, love, or you'll be stuck with words. - Marty Rubin
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. - Agnes Repplier
Laugh and love; live life to the fullest. Care and share; extend your hand to the most needy. - Debasish Mridha
Rewards are not simply given, they are earned. Each of your trials and tribulations increases your reward. You are destined for success and greatness beyond measure. So smile to increase your endurance and laugh in the face of adversity. - Carlos Wallace
Once men sang together round a table in chorus; now one man sings alone, for the absurd reason that he can sing better. If our civilization goes on like this, only one man will laugh, because he can laugh better than the rest. - G.K. Chesterton
It's easy to laugh it's easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind.
Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings. - W. Lee Grant
If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious. - Giovanni Jacopo Casanova
If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. - Charles M. Schulz
Can you hear Destiny laugh as she tiptoes toward you? Destiny is heartless. - Anonymous
Sometimesthe things that make you cryare more beautifulthan the thingsthat make you laugh. - Sanober Khan
My religion consists of laughing at myself. My motto is this: As long as there is a me, there is a reason to laugh out loud! - C. JoyBell C.
Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there. - C. JoyBell C.
At their core, women fear that men will kill them. At their core, men fear that women will laugh at them. - Gavin de Becker
Happiness is a big joke; let us laugh at it loud. - Santosh Kalwar
One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.
Maggie Dove wanted to be a beacon of light. She dreamed of being the sort of person who made others laugh, calmed crying babies, soothed wild dogs, inspired hopefulness. - Susan Breen
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut
Someday everything will all make a perfect sense,So for now Laugh at the confusion,Smile through the tears and Keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason..... - Pooja siwa
Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost. - Lewis Carroll
I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting. - Robert A. Heinlein
the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved - Russell Lynes
We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it? - Betty White
There are only two profound ways to reach enlightenment: Laugh by yourself, or get tickled. - Saurabh Sharma
When kids hit the age of one, they're like miniature drunks. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh, then two minutes later they're crying. They drool.
I miss those kisses and the way I used to sleep in your warm hug. I miss the way you made me eat breakfasts and I miss the way you made me laugh. I miss you.. - Himmilicious
Laugh it off, Life gets better. - Touaxia Vang
There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again. - Nikki Rowe
I like joy; I want to be joyous. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that`s all I want. I like being happy. I want to make others happy. - Doris Day
I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh. - Craig Ferguson
If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell. - David Cook
But you know, as I do, that the storm will passAnd that the implacable sun doesn't simply stopWhen obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud,Which is why I know I'll return to your house-On a Sunday that's there on the calendar-And laugh with you over a glass of grappa. - Mauricio Rosencof
Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve. - Sameh Elsayed
It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing. - Jack Handey
In time, all great masterpieces turn into shameless creatures who laugh at their creators. - Erol Ozan
Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out. - Jean-Paul Sartre
It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible. - D.E. Navarro
No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to crySo my verse hasthis almost imperceptible thrillLife is sad, the world is crazy!Not worth killing yourself for itNot for anyoneFor no loveLife goes on, indifferently! - Mario Quintana
Laugh without inhibition; put your heart out on your sleeve - Sanjeet Veen
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. - Thomas Szasz
I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. - Anna Quindlen
Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying? - Chuck Palahniuk
To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endure the betrayal of false friends;to appreciate beauty;to find the best in others; to leave the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it. - Salma Hayek
Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say. - Mark Polish
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,At which the audience never fail to laugh? - Aristophanes
No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it. - Richelle E. Goodrich
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore
There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet. - J.R.R. Tolkien
To live is to laugh, as to laugh is to live. - Tawna Jacobsen
I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty. - Pablo Neruda
Love, laugh, learn, live. - Debasish Mridha
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself. - Madonna
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. - Margaret Atwood
I realize that they giggle and I actually laugh, that they show their cleavage and I have none to show, but just so you know, I am also a girl. I'm one of the three wise MEN. And it's gay to think that James Bond is hot. - John Green
I laugh when i'm hurt.I laugh when i'm confused.I laugh when i'm angry.I laugh because others will laugh as well, and while we are laughing, I feel okay for a while. - Damien Buerger
Your laugh is of the sardonic kind. - Caius Sempronius Gracchus
Cry, laugh, sing, cuss all you want but all the while dig the a hole with precision, till it is completed- and then move on….. - roy valenzuela
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? - Kelvin Throop III
We must laugh and cry, enjoy and suffer, in a word, vibrate to our full capacity I think that’s what being really human means. - Gustave Flaubert
Some way some how i'm going to be happy i'm going to laugh i'm going to prosper,i feel good that i remain positive thru these mess up times!!! - jojo1980
Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully. - Amy Leigh Mercree
I don’t like days that end without answers. I’ll just keep my eyes open and we’ll see what happens. I look up. One of the streetlights fades, disappearing as quick as it shone, the light sucked out of it. Life can be so hilarious sometimes I don’t have time to laugh. - Stacey Donovan
If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself". - honeya
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. - Will Rogers
Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for us to come up, but hey-when you are the son of Poseidon, you don't have to hurry. And it was pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time. - Rick Riordan
You know you’ve reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You broke me bodily.The heart ain't the half of it,And I'll never learn to laugh at itIn my good natured way.In fact, I'm laughing less in general,But I learned a lot at my own funeral.And I knew you'd be the death of me,So I guess that's the price I pay. - Ani DiFranco
God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. - Woody Allen
Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story. - Robert M. Drake
Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ. - Karen Kingsbury
شر البلية ما يضحك The worst misfortunes are the ones that make you laugh - Arabic proverb
Debbie Downer" was one of the few sketches where I broke, and I remember watching Heratio Sanz laugh so hard that tears squirted out of his eyes. I still believe that sketch may be a cure for low-level depression if watched regularly. - Amy Poehler
I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that. We argued about it all the time, but it was good-natured. He was the most open-minded human being I've ever known. - Dave Barry
Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own. - Peter James West
I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth. - Will Rogers
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine! - Rob Liano
to make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity - William Arthur Ward
In life, some laugh, some cry, some live, some die. The choice is ours to crawl or to fly. - RVM
Good friends laugh at you, laugh with you, but never laugh behind your back. - Saru Singhal
My grandma said to me, Lailah; ‘You laugh while sleeping - Lailah Gifty Akita
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. - Robert A. Heinlein
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. - Logan Pearsall Smith
If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you,’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess
The only way to cry your eyes out and laugh your ass off at the same time is to have your mom or girlfriends present. Without them, the laughing part wouldn't be nearly as fun. - Shannon L. Alder
....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time - George Orwell
When the highest type of men hear Tao,They diligently practice it.When the average type of men hear Tao,They half believe in it.When the lowest type of men hear Tao,They laugh heartily at it.Without the laugh, there is no Tao. - Lao-tzu
Over the years, I learned to smile or laugh when I was supposed to. I kept my true self hidden; I did not need to unleash my pain on the world around me. Instead, I taught myself to ignore it. I did not realize that the pain was eating away at my soul. - J.D. Stroube
Laugh without reason, live for the moment, live with passion. - Debasish Mridha
Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained. - Shirley MacLaine
If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh. - P.C. Cast
Humor can make a serious difference. In the workplace, at home, in all areas of life looking for a reason to laugh is necessary. A sense of humor helps us to get through the dull times, cope with the difficult times, enjoy the good times and manage the scary times. - Steve Goodier
There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to laugh and laugh loud. - Shannon L. Alder
It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous. - Nathanael West
I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. - C. JoyBell C.
GreenHollyWood is a bad character, fat, liking jokes, liking jokes about size, about the large, about the how big are you. Likes to laugh when you make a mistake, ... but but he is a teacher?! With a glasses a fat guy! - Deyth Banger
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either - Golda Meir
Laughing is so therapeutic but what is even more therapeutic is having someone laugh out loud with you. - Karen A. Baquiran
I love to laugh. Specially at myself. Sometimes I spend hours doing it. - Nuno Roque
Well I was out in my four door With the top down. And I looked up and there they were: Millions of tiny teardrops Just sort of hanging there And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry And I said to myself: What next big sky? - Laurie Anderson
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Humor, you can't exist without it. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Otherwise you suffer.
I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company. - Jane Goodall
A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself. - Clifford Cohen
Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities. - Emil Cioran
If you do not want others to laugh at your inherited god and faith, then, do not follow a hateful and stupid, a man-made sod and ism, mate. - Fakeer Ishavardas
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. - Edgar Watson Howe
He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.
I'd rather laugh in a tent than cry in a palace. - James Enns
The universe had no choice but to create intelligent life so that there would be someone else that could simply laugh at how unbelievably, ridiculously and senselessly huge the universe is and how utterly insignificant the rest of us are. - Ian Strang
When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit. - Johnny Depp
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell
I say, "You a kind girl," and she nod, repeat it back to me. But before I can do another one, she get up and chase that poor dog around the yard and laugh and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day? - Kathyrn Stockett
When you make an embarrassing mistake, learn to let the memories be enough to let you laugh about it today. - Julieanne O'Conner
To enjoy a great life, often have a great laugh. - Debasish Mridha
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Chuck Klosterman
To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast - Ruskin Bond
I used to love youI still doSo SelfishI love the old youThe you that didnt shoot drugs...The you that didnt get beat on by menYou laugh in my face and call me a foolBut its trueI still love youSometimes,I can see the old youWhen your eyes flashWhen you almost look alive - Henry Rollins
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. - Billy Joel
Your path is not my path. Should we meet at the crossroads and ye be a friend, tarry a while, drink some wine and let us laugh for a while. If ye be foe, continue on your merry way and may our paths never cross again. - Virginia Alison
You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires. - Shannon L. Alder
Perhaps the only way for a husband to know the true mind graph of his wife is to make her laugh wildly or annoy her enough deeply; else she can hide many secrets from him all throughout her life. - Anuj Somany
But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else. - Leo Tolstoy
Most of the time when you laugh, it's because something is amiss - clumsy or wrong or sad - but when you laugh at a kitten, you laugh of pure joy. - Laura Amy Schlitz
The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience. - Roderic Owen
believe me when i say this.when you lovesomeone.you can travel the worldin their laugh. - Sanober Khan
Laugh until you cry;never let your eyes look dryThis is not a matter of joke;this is all to provokeour sense of humourLife is its own consumer! - Munia Khan
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart - Leo Buscaglia
Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh. - Aniruddha Sastikar
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. - Linda Ellerbee
Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
Horror is a curiousity, it's used we to go over on real horror it just prepare us for the hard battles. To laugh at somebody's harm... there is even and scientific explanation. - Deyth Banger
My life has been one great big joke,A dance that's walked,A song that's spoke,I laugh so hard I almost choke,When I think about myself. - Maya Angelou
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou
Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt to capture someone’s spirit. That is theirs, and theirs alone. - Pen
Smile wide to receive many smiles in return. But if you want a good laugh, smirk like a wicked, little imp and watch the range of expressions you're flashed. - Richelle E. Goodrich
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." - Quincy Jones
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that. - Jay Leno
He will laugh thee to scorn. - Bible
People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed. - Toba Beta
What's matter of importance is that if you can make your ownself laugh and smile. - Shailee J-N
Pardon me if, reading that, I want to laugh, because you want to relieve me of a fear I've never had. I've never thought that, as they say, you eat little children. - Jeanne D'Albret
Live well, Laugh often, Love much. - Bessie Anderson Stanley
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. - W. H. Auden
If we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. - Bill Watterson
Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh. - Amy Poehler
The first task of every author is to evoke emotion in their reader. You may laugh or you may cry; you may love me or you may hate me. So long as you feel something, I know that I'm doing my job. - V.L. Dreyer
A loud smile is often a fake laugh. - Saahil Prem
The laugh left a bitter taste in our mouths, but we laughed out all the same. - Haruki Murakami
Switch on your smile, laugh without reason. You control happiness, you change the world. - Roel van Sleeuwen
If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall. - Morrissey
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. - Golda Meir
It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart. - Martin Luther
You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything.
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside remembering all the times you've felt that way. - Charles Bukowski
A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder. - Bob Northam
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry - Unknown
For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school. - Stephen King
The madder it makes you, the harder you need to laugh at it. - Destiny Booze
They may call your victories, "lucky"...They may mock your failures...They may laugh at your heartache...But still, they will never be happy. This is the cyclical emptiness of the hater mindset. - Steve Maraboli
Live. Laugh. Love. - Various
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. - Norm Papernick
Fafhrd stopped, again wiped right hand on robe, and held it out. "Name's Fafhrd. Ef ay ef aitch ar dee."Again the Mouser shook it. "Gray Mouser," he said a touch defiantly, as if challenging anyone to laugh at the sobriquet. "Excuse me, but how exactly do you pronounce that? Faf-hrud?""Just Faf-erd. - Fritz Leiber
The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool. - George Santayana
I smile when I want to cry. I laugh when I want to die. - Donna Lynn Hope
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
...I try to laugh at whatever life brings. Because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff, but when I look up, I just trip over things.
Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny. - Mamur Mustapha
Sometimes, it's better to bunk a class and enjoy with friends, because now, when I look back, marks never make me laugh, but memories do. - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
An envy of that one consummate partSwept me, who mock. Whether I laugh or weep, Some inner silences are at my heart. - Léonie Adams
Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is. - Jennifer Donnelly
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously. - Richard P. Denney
People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence - Goitsemang Mvula
Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower. - Peggy Toney Horton
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the writers, keenly interested in human welfare whom I know, laugh at the prohibition law. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Laugh a little when the joke's on you - Helen Gurley Brown
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. - Katherine Mansfield
Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.That's how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever. - Emma Brynstein
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. - George Gordon Byron
Laugh, enjoy and pleasure make you live more. - Deyth Banger
My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace. - Debasish Mridha
If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall,people will think you're drunk. - Conan O'Brien
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. - Vaclav Havel
Laugh as much as possible, because one moment will stop this moment. - Deyth Banger
To manage to smile and have a good laugh in the midst of difficult times makes you look younger. - Euginia Herlihy
The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below... (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous...) - Charles de Leusse
Aspirations are useless, because to aspire, is to reach. Dream, they say, but not too big. Laugh, they say, but not too loudly. Love, they say, but not too hard. - Logan Keys
I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what is never attained; man is most contemptible when compared with his own pretensions. It is better to laugh at man from outside the universe, than to weep for him within. - H.P. Lovecraft
If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old. - Edgar Watson Howe
I pray, before I die, that I receive the power to believe in fairytales again, Oh' how I would love to laugh and know that God laughed with me. - Tonny K. Brown
Live Loud, Love Loud, Laugh Loud, Play Loud, Cry Loud Isn’t that what life’s about! - Samuel Nazer Walsh
Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side. - Jane Austen
During these times, when crazy people are running the government, all you can do is laugh.
As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. - Lao Tzu
Her lips full and inviting, she has an infectious laugh and glassy cackle in her eyes, and a 2000 volt sexual charisma that beckons me like a fluff girl on scuffed knees. - Brett Tate
When we cannot see, we don't judge. Small wonder when we kiss, cry, laugh, make love, are in pain, pray and listen to music, we close our eyes. - Sabine Shah
If you're funny, if there's something that makes you laugh, then every day's going to be okay. - Tom Hanks
Never laugh at live dragons. - J.R.R. Tolkien
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. - Jimmy Buffett
If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. - Marilyn Monroe
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. - Jalaluddin Rumi
Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes - Kjiva
To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to leave the world a better place,to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived,this is to have succeeded. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. - Steve Martin
I only laugh when I don't know on what I'm laughing to. - Moozy Mathers
To laugh is to live profoundly. - Milan Kundera
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. - Anonymous
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
One can know a man from a laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
Ideas stand in the corner and laugh while we fight over them. - Marty Rubin
every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh. - Philip K. Dick
Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that is a treat. - Joanne Woodward
I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. - A.D. Posey
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
We Live and we Learn but we don't always Laugh. - Andrew Carson
Deep love is no inusual nowadays. It's just for a few brave those understand it's an everydat's journey, fed it with respect, honesty, faith and lots of laugh. - SoyLaAzu
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh. - Stephen King
No one will laugh at how great things are for somebody. - Harold Ramis
People may laugh at what I do but am not perturbed. My work is to add value to lives. I will keep living my dreams so that by the time my mortal body may stop working, I will remain immortally relevant to generations to come. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? - Jane Austen
Tomorrow has not invited you yet, so LIVE for today! Tomorrow is near, yet so far away. Choose this day to smile, laugh, love unconditionally, and be happy within. - Stephanie Lahart
A great paradox which should God make us understand, we will weep, laugh, wonder and ponder is the paradox of human ignorance - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
It's easy to make me laugh, you can make me laugh, anyone can make me laugh, but that certainly does not mean you can make me do anything. - C. JoyBell C.
Take the wrong route sometimes and make fool out of yourself. Laugh at your mess ups because it will all become a funny story one day. - Mahyar Mottahed
To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray. - Ilyas Kassam
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world. - Goldie Hawn
High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track. - Scott Westerfeld
Any body can laugh in Joy, but the bold ones also smile in pain…knowing that pain is just like a zooming train, that will soon pass by. - R.v.m.
Find 100 reasons to laugh. You are bound to feel better, you will cope with problems more effectively and people will enjoy being around you. Besides unhappiness, what do you have to lose? - Steve Goodier
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? - Jane Austen
Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis. - Ace Antonio Hall
The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light. - Bill Hicks
Because when the night gets here, I’ll be the youngest I’ll ever be again, so I will laugh and celebrate relative youth. - Darnell Lamont Walker
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities. - Dr. Seuss
When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow to the heart of God - Sunday Adelaja
I laugh at myself. It's so important to laugh at yourself. Have a little heart chuckle, cry a few tears. It's OK! Don't apologize for being you. Just be you. Be true to who you are and who you want to be! - Akiroq Brost
They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. - Kurt Cobain
Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy. - Giacomo Casanova
I always made people laugh until they cry.But I always cried when I miss you till I die. - Ak
A good book should make you laugh, cry or pee your pants. The best do all three! - G. Ernest Smith
Why weep when it takes less energy to laugh? Why frown when it takes less energy to smile? Why despair when it takes less energy to hope? Why fear when it takes less energy to love? - Matshona Dhliwayo
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead. - Chuck Palahniuk
Some women tend to bring insults into a little show you put forth to make them laugh, but they later accuse you of some abnormality if you keep them at arms length in order to regain your respect. - Michael Bassey Johnson
You cant laugh at a joke agian and agian, but why do you keep crying over the same thing over and over agian? - Monika Ramzy
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. - Abraham Lincoln
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. - Jean de La Bruyere
No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time, it sounds like neighing yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up. - Hilaire Belloc
Perhaps I am just a coward who loves to laugh at life better than I do cry with it. But when I do get to crying, boy, I can roll a mean tear. - Zora Neale Hurston
If we cant laugh at ourselves, do we have the right to laugh at others? - C.H. Hamel
I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff. - Louis C. K.
We laugh, that we may not cry. - Roger Ebert
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints, sinners are much more fun. - Billy Joel
Live simply, laugh joyfully, love tremendously, and leave silently. - Debasish Mridha
A good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with. - Karen Salmansohn
He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh. - David Nicholls
I do not laugh; I do not cry;I'm sweating out the will to die.My past is sliding down the drain;I soon will be myself again. - Theodore Roethke
Laugh until you cry, don't cry until you laugh. - Karen Bishop
I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is. - M.J. Hayland
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it. - Bill Nye
At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter. - Cecelia Ahern
In the garden of humanity every baby is a fresh new flower who can smile, laugh, giggle, dance, love and sing with mother earth. - Debasish Mridha
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. - George Bernard Shaw
Get a woman to smile, and she will like you; get her to laugh, and she will desire you; get her to blush, and she will court you; get her to melt, and she will marry you. - Matshona Dhliwayo
She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better. - C. JoyBell C.
Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. - Unknown
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance. - W. Somerset Maugham
And we should consider everyday lost on which we have not danced at least once: And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche
... it's a bad sign when someone drinks a lot and doesn't laugh. - Andrés Neuman
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at? - Unknown
If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke. - Gregory David Roberts
She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She’s always ready to laugh. - C. JoyBell C.
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. - Dame Edna Everage
I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.Her laugh was like a bangle of bells. Your hair is wet, I told her one day, Did you take a bath? It is dew! she laughed, I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn. - Roman Payne
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ....one friend who always makes her laugh... and one wholets her cry... - Pamela Redmond Satran
It takes a lot to laugh, it takes a train to cry - Bob Dylan
There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep from crying. And I guess if you ever get me crying, I might not stop. This is the way I look at tragedy or else I'll cry. - Bob Newhart
Eat till you're full. Play anytime you want. Sleep as much as you like. Cry. Get angry. Laugh. Live. Live. Live. - Kazuya Minekura
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut
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