With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. – William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice, Act 1, Scene 1. Gratiano
The one thing I think I’ve noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they’ve sort of become routinized, so there’s an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment. – Alan Alda
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it. – Bill Cosby
I know it’s corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through. – Andy Dick
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. – Andrew Hudgins
I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That’s really what I think fills my tank. – Anna Eshoo
I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don’t question. It was a gift from God. – Buddy Hackett
I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards. – Bill Engvall
I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say ‘I’m a comedian,’ people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don’t know what you call that – a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don’t know. Satirists can be very dark. – Bassem Youssef
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter. – Chuck Jones
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. – Alice Meynell
Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It’s an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws. – Alain de Botton
A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain. – A. A. Milne
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That’s all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other. – August Wilson
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. – Carol Vorderman
Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It’s one of the things I respect most about Amy Schumer. She’s found a way to get us closer to ourselves and see the ugly side of humanity, but not in a way that’s pointing a finger or that’s angry. She does it in a way that makes us see the absurdity and laugh at it. – Brie Larson
If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they’ve all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there’s something about laughter and the durability of a marriage. – Bob Newhart
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. – Aldous Huxley
I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people’s home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It’s very addictive. It’s a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh. – Armando Iannucci
Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial. – Allen Klein
If there’s one thing I could attribute my strength to, I would say it’s the gift of laughter, which I inherited from my mother’s side. – China Machado
Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity – two magic potions in themselves – the very essence of laughter – the unrestrained emotion within us! – Douglas Fairbanks
You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine. – Francoise Sagan
When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on. – Doris Roberts
