Anne Rivers Siddons Quotes

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

I like squirm-laughing.

Laughter is the language of the heart

Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

I'm a sponge. I'm obsessed with comedy. I'm obsessed with the idea that you can make somebody laugh, and I love to be around people who can make other people laugh.

when he smiles it's as if you'd just told him the first joke on earth.

Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.

You make me laugh like a loon on loon tablets!

The laugh is what trumps everything.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

There's gratification in making somebody laugh. It's a wonderful sound. I find myself, to this day, doing it, wanting to make people laugh.

You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

Humor is the harmony of the heart.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into the world in mirthful bursts. There wasn't anything fake about it; it was an amusement park of a laugh, and when it appeared, you wanted to jump on board.

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it . . . so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you're done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.