laughter

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

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

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth But has trouble enough of its own.

I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.

It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.

It__ not that we have to quit this life one day, but it__ how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.

It had been an embarrassing moment, like the one you get when you realize for the first time that you have what it takes to become an accountant.

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

Laughter erupted from her belly and shot out her mouth like pigeons through an open cage door, schoolchildren bursting into summer vacation, water from a tapped hydrant.

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.

Why were things funny? Was God laughing at us? Or was laughter the dispensation of God? Maybe laughter itself was Godlike. When we laugh, we rise above pain. We rise above indignity. We even rise above incredulity. We "get it." Maybe in the way God "gets it.

4.39 HUMANITY & DIVINITYWhen you lose reasoning you forget humanity,When you forget laughter you lose Divinity.[222] _ 4

And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.