A Frayed Knot

Laughter is contagious. - Unknown

I like laughter around me. - Mireille Enos

I'd rather be funny than wise. - Dennis Miller

Laughter can bring a new perspective. - Christopher Durang

A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin

Jazz is not dead... it just smells funny. - Frank Zappa

You have as much laughter as you have faith. - Martin Luther

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. - Arnold H Glasow

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - e e cummings

Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is. - Irish Proverb

Laughter is binary: it either happens or it doesn't. - David Dobkin

You can't be funny if you don't have good material. - Matt LeBlanc

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me. - William Blake

Life is a funny thing that happens to you on the way to the grave. - Quentin Crisp

Laughter crosses boundaries of class and age. Humour is universal. - Jeremy Lloyd

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. - Dr. Seuss

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. - William Arthur Ward

I do believe that laughter is the best medicine - it cures everything. - Radhika Apte

Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in. - David Dobkin

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. - David Hyde Pierce

Comedy's a funny game, it's not a job, it's a vocation - you never stop. - Eric Sykes

I will be posting telepathically today. So if you think of something funny, that was me. - joe-kster

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny. - Dr. Seuss

I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. - Lea Thompson

Laughter rises out of tragedy, when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. - Erma Bombeck

One of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. - Soleil M Frye

How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations? - Jane Swan

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. - Alice Meynell

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. - Bob Newhart

Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. - C S Lewis

Laughter is like a windshield wiper - it won't stop the rain, but it will allow you to keep going. - Unknown

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice. - John Green

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

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. - Robert Frost

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. - Albert Einstein

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. - Garrison Keillor

I love writing for women. The willingness to go from laughter to tears in a moment is the greatest palette you can paint with as a writer. - Michael P King

I was named the Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things. - Guillermo Diaz

That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears. - Peter Heller