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We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Does anyone remember laughter?

I really hate sitcoms on television with canned laughter and stuff. What really makes me laugh is the real-life stuff. I've got a dry sense of humor.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

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

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene.

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.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.