Subject: Emotions » Laughter

As my mother always says, “If you have to swear to get laughs, then you’re obviously a c**t.”

(1972 – ) Irish stand-up comedian, voice over artist & actor

If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs; if you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

(1920 – ) Hungarian writer

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist

My wife put a mirror over our bed; she says she likes to watch herself laugh.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

I quit because I was in the hospital and I realized that I truly believed that laughter was the best medicine, but it turns out penicillin works a hell of a lot better.

(1971 – ) American comedian, actor, television host & former physician

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail and if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

A sense of humor is what makes you laugh at something that would make you sore if it happened to you!

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Wherever you go in the world, you just have to say you’re Canadian and people laugh.

(1950 – 1994) Canadian actor & comedian

At their core, women fear that men will kill them; at their core, men fear that women will laugh at them.

(1954 – ) security specialist, advisor & author

It’s weird to hear a girl laugh when I’m not making love to her.

(1949 – 2016) American comedian & television actor

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

(1946 – ) singer, songwriter, author & businessman

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.


I’d like to tell you some jokes now, but you’d only laugh.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Men love war because it allows them to look serious… it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

(1926 – 2005) English novelist & essayist