#laught

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#back #deal #distance #event #gives

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#i #i think #laughter #marriage #moments

The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#dole #effects #i #i can #less

I just love listening to the laughter. ↗

— Simon Pegg

#just #laughter #listening #love

Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#flying #laughter #mermaid #neverland #peter-pan

You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#caused #coming #completely #control #feel

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#certain #contrary #dragged #handful #inured

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

#am #cousin #had #heard #i

Laughter can bring a new perspective. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#laughter #new #new perspective #perspective

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with. ↗

— John Irving

#console #fact #how #i #in fact