#laugh

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute - I've got to have them. ↗

— Ken Dodd

#away #get #going #got #hard

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

#genius #i #intervened #laughter #like

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. ↗

— Will Durst

#anxiety #back #comedy #contempt #creep

Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children. ↗

— John Gibbon

#children #few #forget #grief #horror

When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? ↗

— Max Frisch

#humor #laugh #make #makes #mean

You didn't want to laugh, did you? It wasn't very funny, was it? ↗

— Graham Kennedy

#funny #laugh #very #want #you

The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed Death was but the good King's jest, It was hid so carefully. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#hope #laughter #skeleton #death

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

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. ↗

— David Lynch

#absurdity #after #because #becomes #bloody

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? ↗

— Jane Austen

#live #make #neighbors #our #them