Quotes of: Laughter Keyword

These people know the reality and laugh at it. Such laughter has little concern with what is funny. It is often bitter and sometimes a little mad, for it is the laugh under the mask of tragedy, and also the laughter that masks tears. They are the sam...

Return to Laughter: An Anthropological Novel

Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh." --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA Laughter is a good st...

Two Cultures Meet: Pathways For American Indians To Medicine

Laughter is the best medicine

Traditional

When you enter the world of laughter, you enter the world of fantasy and creativity.

Happy Lemons: How Laughter Breeds Success

A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of laughter more terrible than any sadnes...

Jack London

No one was ever hurt by laughter.

Japanese

Where there is laughter happiness likes to be.

Japanese

Many families are built on laughter.

Indian

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

Henri Bergson

The tears of an heir are laughter under a mask.

Latin

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Yiddish

There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the thin...

Michael Haneke

Joy, humor, and laughter should be part of everyone's spiritual life. They are gifts from God and help us enjoy creation.

Between Heaven and Mirth: Why Joy, Humor, and Laughter Are at the Heart of the Spiritual Life

Laughter! I remember laughter. I did laughter a lot, he thought. These colours spinning around them are matching their mirth, changing from moment to moment, flaring out as they run and throw and catch. There are silver joy-waves rippling about them

This Strange and Precious Thing

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Tim O'Brien

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

Francois Rabelais

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Carol Channing

A poor joke must invent its own laughter.

Latin

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.

Bob Newhart

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Latin

Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually accompanies laughter. It seems as though the comic could not produce its disturbing effect unless it fell, so to say, on the surface of a soul that is...

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic