Quotes about laugh
A collection of quotes on the topic of laugh, likeness, doing, making.
Quotes about laugh

“In real life, I'm a really smiley person. I smile when I talk and I laugh.”

“They laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same.”

Variant: You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect — you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break — her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”

"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews

Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)

“You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.”
Also sometimes attributed to Kurt Cobain
Variant: You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.


“Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.”

Speech to the Reichstag, 30 January 1939, as quoted at The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/threat.htm.
1930s

A speech after Bryant's last game, 13 April 2016, posted on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg0mxPXIpLY&t=5s.

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
Variant: Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it
Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
“How to make God laugh? Tell Him your plans.”
Source: The Other Side of the Story

Quoted in Helen McCarthy, Osamu Tezuka: God of manga , translated by Fabio Deotto, Edizioni BD, 2010, back cover.

“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
"Creator — A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh." — H.L. Mencken, A Book of Burlesques (1920), p. 203. and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), Ch. 30
Misattributed
“My, my. I don’t know how I did it. (Laughs) But I did it.”
Cited in Allie Light, Irving Saraf (1983), "The Angel That Stands By Me"

Yam Gruel (1916), in Rashomon and Other Stories https://books.google.it/books?id=DYHQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 (Tuttle, 2011).

“Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.”

“He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.”

“It's so easy to laugh, it's so easy to hate, it takes strength to be gentle and kind.”
from the 1986 song "I Know It's Over"
From songs

When she was asked, in 1926, to chair the Bengal women's educational conference. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/28/rokeya-sakhawat-hossain-hero-tahmima-anam
Context: Although I am grateful to you for the respect that you have expressed towards me by inviting me to preside over the conference, I am forced to say that you have not made the right choice. I have been locked up in the socially oppressive iron casket of 'porda' for all my life. I have not been able to mix very well with people – as a matter of fact, I do not even know what is expected of a chairperson. I do not know if one is supposed to laugh, or to cry.

“A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.”
15
1940s–present, Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)
Context: Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them. A man who can laugh, if only at himself, is never really miserable.

“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?”
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)

“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

“I am writing My Life to laugh at myself, and I am succeeding.”

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
Context: "Why do men feel threatened by women?" I asked a male friend of mine. (I love that wonderful rhetorical device, "a male friend of mine." It's often used by female journalists when they want to say something particularly bitchy but don't want to be held responsible for it themselves. It also lets people know that you do have male friends, that you aren't one of those fire-breathing mythical monsters, The Radical Feminists, who walk around with little pairs of scissors and kick men in the shins if they open doors for you. "A male friend of mine" also gives — let us admit it — a certain weight to the opinions expressed.) So this male friend of mine, who does by the way exist, conveniently entered into the following dialogue. "I mean," I said, "men are bigger, most of the time, they can run faster, strangle better, and they have on the average a lot more money and power." "They're afraid women will laugh at them," he said. "Undercut their world view." Then I asked some women students in a quickie poetry seminar I was giving, "Why do women feel threatened by men?" "They're afraid of being killed," they said.
Source: Evidence: Poems

Stobaeus, iii. 4. 83
Quoted by Stobaeus
In this quote Dasa is warning against the inevitable when one is busy with worldly chores as given here[Narayan, M.K.V., Lyrical Musings on Indic Culture: A Sociology Study of Songs of Sant Purandara Dasa, http://books.google.com/books?id=-r7AxJp6NOYC&pg=PA79, 1 January 2010, Readworthy, 978-93-80009-31-5, 81]
Kaufman explaining his act

Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, and Socialism (1879)

Quote from 'Max Ernst im Gesprach mit Eduard Roditi' (1967), as cited in Max Ernst, Écritures Paris, 1970, p. 416
1951 - 1976
"Model's Web rants pined for love" in Daily News (New York, 29 June 2009) http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/06/28/2008-06-28_models_web_rants_pined_for_love.html

Tract 83 http://anglicanhistory.org/tracts/tract83.html (29 June 1838).

“The biggest laugh has to come at the end.”
Quoted in a video interview for The New York Times Magazine YouTube channel (20 December 2012)

Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1955) by Giorgio De Santillana
Other quotes

"Charles Dickens" (1939)
Context: The thing that drove Dickens forward into a form of art for which he was not really suited, and at the same time caused us to remember him, was simply the fact that he was a moralist, the consciousness of ‘having something to say’. He is always preaching a sermon, and that is the final secret of his inventiveness. For you can only create if you can care. Types like Squeers and Micawber could not have been produced by a hack writer looking for something to be funny about. A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea. Dickens is able to go on being funny because he is in revolt against authority, and authority is always there to be laughed at.

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.”
Source: The House of Hades


“there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears.”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.”

Source: The Sorrows of Satan or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire