Laughter Quotes

"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."

"The only joy in the world is to begin."

"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day."

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

"Peace begins with a smile."

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"In today's rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just being."

"Today I choose joy. Today I choose peace. Today I choose me."

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

"Let your smile change the world. Do not let the world change your smile."

"Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you will start to see a big difference in your life."

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me."

"What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!"

"I was informed yesterday that there's a Twitter account for my laugh. Very hard to get used to things like that. Pretty amazing."

"There is nothing like the way people feel after they've seen 'The Intouchables.' They feel amazing. The word of mouth on this film is incredible. It's intelligent-feeling good. You're not insulted by the low-browness or stupidity of some of the humor. It's so smart and terrific."

"I'm lucky that my real-life Mom has both a great sense of humor about herself and an amazing ability to slip into complete denial if the subject matter gets a little too close to home."

"I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!"

"I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere."

"Art is man's expression of his joy in labor."

"The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above."

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness."

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

"Beauty is power a smile is its sword."

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."

"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."

"There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."

"Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat."

"Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits."

"Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction."

"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

"If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either."

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

"The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history."

"Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it."

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."

"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all."

"Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead."

"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval."

"So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter."

"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land."

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"