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

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, ‚Children’s Letters to God.‘ You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, ‚Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.‘

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

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

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

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.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I’ll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

It’s no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.