All Quotes By Tag: Laughter
“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.”
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“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
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“Best friends are treasures. Hug them for their caring. Applaud their accomplishments. Laugh with them gratefully.”
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“In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the Ingersoll’s, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was ‘Some Mistakes of Moses,’ and it was a memorable experience. Our lost leaders, — Emerson, Thoreau, Theodore Parker, — who had really spoken to disciples rather than to the nation, seemed to have contributed something to form this organ by which their voice could reach the people. Every variety of power was in this orator, — logic and poetry, humor and imagination, simplicity and dramatic art, moral and boundless sympathy. The wonderful power which Washington’s Attorney-general, Edmund Randolph, ascribed to Thomas Paine of insinuating his ideas equally into learned and unlearned had passed from Paine’s pen to Ingersoll’s tongue. The effect on the people was indescribable. The large theatre was crowded from pit to dome. The people were carried from plaudits of his argument to loud laughter at his humorous sentences, and his flexible voice carried the sympathies of the assembly with it, at times moving them to tears by his pathos.{Conway’s thoughts on the great Robert Ingersoll}”
“If God is indeed dead, I like to think He died laughing.”
“A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can’t see clearly.”
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“Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter.”
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“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
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“THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.”
“Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.”
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“There’s nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn’t even have to matter what they’re laughing about.”
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“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
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“Everyone has a sense of humor. If you don’t laugh at jokes, you probably laugh at opinions.”
“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
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“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
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