laughter

There never was a throne yet built so high that it could not be rocked by laughter from below.

He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over.

onceI heard her huskylaughter pour out likerain after a drought

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live

Willem laughs again. The sound is clear and strong as a bell, and it fills me with joy, and it's like, for the first time in my life, I understand that this is the point of laughter, to spread happiness.

The Universe will give us love, happiness, merriment and laughter if we give others love, happiness, merriment and laughter!

The common denominator of all jokes is a path of expectation that is diverted by an unexpected twist necessitating a complete reinterpretation of all the previous facts _ the punch-line_Reinterpretation alone is insufficient. The new model must be inconsequential. For example, a portly gentleman walking toward his car slips on a banana peel and falls. If he breaks his head and blood spills out, obviously you are not going to laugh. You are going to rush to the telephone and call an ambulance. But if he simply wipes off the goo from his face, looks around him, and then gets up, you start laughing. The reason is, I suggest, because now you know it__ inconsequential, no real harm has been done. I would argue that laughter is nature__ way of signaling that "it__ a false alarm." Why is this useful from an evolutionary standpoint? I suggest that the rhythmic staccato sound of laughter evolved to inform our kin who share our genes; don__ waste your precious resources on this situation; it__ a false alarm. Laughter is nature__ OK signal.

In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

__ can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.__hat went by just a little fast, Torl.__t__ terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a man__ foot when he__ wearing boots, commander.

I dearly love a laugh.

By the way, you haven__ seen an alien around here, have you? About six foot eight with a face like a cross between a boar and an upturned crab. Probably carrying a spear and a bag full of severed heads._ Parker shrugged. __ dunno. It gets busy here._ __e__ got quite an unusual laugh._ __h, that bloke? He__ down the bottom of the ramp. You know him, then?

Mrs. Russell made us both sit down with a glass of milk. "And I have a special treat for you," she said. I'm not lying. She really said that. I held my breath because of the last special treat at the Daughertys', but it didn't help, because when Mrs. Russell came back, she came back with a loaf of banana bread. Banana bread! And James said, "How about we have some jam with that?" and Mrs. Russell said, "Jam? Then you wouldn't be able to taste the bananas," and James said, "Ma, I hate bananas," and she said, "But I'm sure that Doug enjoys them," and I said, "I think I'm still full from lunch, so the milk's fine," and then Mrs. Russell picked up the plate with the banana bread on it, and you might not believe this, but she started to laugh and laugh a d laugh, until Mr. Russell came out to the kitchen to see what was so funny and she showed him the banana bread and he said, "I hate bananas," and we all started to laugh until Mrs. Russell said, "I hate bananas too," and you can imagine us all laughing until we were crying and finally Mrs. Russell took the banana bread outside to break it up for the birds-"Let's hope they like bananas"-and then I showed Mr. Russell Aaron Copland's Autobiography: Manuscript Edition, and he stopped laughing.

She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.

Slowly, Rupert Greeves raised his head. His eyelids fluttered and the corner of his mouth twitched up. 'What,' he asked the world, 'can you do to erase my laughter?

All laughing comes from misapprehension. Rightly looked at there is no laughable thing under the sun.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

When Ben came back to me, he said, "Why are you laying with your face in the sand?"I made sure all the laughter was out of me before I rolled over. "I think it helps sunburn." I said.

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.