Quotes about Laughter

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

Jesus being born as a baby was God's way of laughing at a world trying to grow up too quickly.

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

Peace gives you the world, laughter gives you the sky, joy gives you the world, and love gives you the universe.

Heaven is light to me, light-hearted, and full of holy laughter.

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Leanne lighted an oil lamp and they continued until the moment came to receive the baby. 'Erzulie, mother loa, help it be born,' Tete prayed aloud. 'Saint Raymond Nonatus, pay attention, do not let an African saint get ahead of you,' Leanne answered in the same tone, and they both burst out laughing.

We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him in the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence; his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creed refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond, and on these faces there are no smiles.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Isn't God the one who urges us to Make a joyful noise unto the Lord? Why do we always think that means singing? Seems to me the most obvious joyful sound on earth is laughter... I've seen folks quote verses like Rejoice in the Lord always while their faces look like they just buried a rich uncle who willed everything to his pregnant guinea pig. Something is missing.