Laugh Quotes

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh directly coincides with our ability to fight. If we make fun of it, we can transcend it.

Moran Margaret Cho

You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.

Miranda Richardson

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

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Jim Butcher

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

Thomas Carlyle

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Jim Carrey

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.

Unknown

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. (He laughs.) Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. (Pause.) Let us not speak well of it either. (Pause.) Let us not speak of it at all.

Samuel Beckett

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

William James

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Makepeace Thackeray

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

Dane Cook

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.

Red Skelton

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

Tina Fey

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

Magic Johnson

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

Lenny Bruce

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them

Ken Dodd

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Oliver Goldsmith

When you speak about these miracles, I laugh within Myself out of pity, that you allow yourself so easily to loose the precious awareness of My Reality.

Sri Sathya Sai

Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it.

Jonah Goldberg

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Max Eastman

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

Thomas Browne

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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.

Twyla Tharp