Laughter Quotes
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. (Quote by - Henri Bergson)
The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. (Quote by - Catullus)
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions. (Quote by - Norman Cousins)
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. (Quote by - Agnes Repplier)
Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. (Quote by - Alice Meynell)
I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled. (Quote by - Richard Watson Gilder)
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. (Quote by - Carol Channing)
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. (Quote by - Bob Newhart)
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. (Quote by - Linda Ellerbee)
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes. (Quote by - Chazal)
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. (Quote by - Quintilian)
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can. (Quote by - Elsa Maxwell)
The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield)
We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. (Quote by - Rosario Castellanos)
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr)
Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, 'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. (Quote by - e e cummings)
A day without laughter is a day wasted. (Quote by - Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. (Quote by - Puzant Kevork Thomajan)
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
A laugh is a smile that bursts. (Quote by - Mary H. Waldrip)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. (Quote by - Homer
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. (Quote by - Carolyn Llewellyn)
Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. (Quote by - (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. (Quote by - Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais)
Seven days without laughter make one weak. (Quote by - Joel Goodman)
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God (Quote by - Karl Barth)
Your laugh is of the sardonic kind. (Quote by - Caius Sempronius Gracchus)
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Laughter is by definition healthy. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. (Quote by - Gordon W. Allport)
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. (Quote by - Jean Houston)
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. (Quote by - Horace)
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. (Quote by - Victor Borge)
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield)
The best blush to use is laughter: It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul. (Quote by - Linda Knight)
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion . . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.)
He is not always at ease who laughs. (Quote by - Dante)
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. (Quote by - Charles C. Grevvile)
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited. (Quote by - Luke)
I have known sorrow--therefore I May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily Than those who never sorrowed upon earth And know not laughter's worth. I have known laughter--therefore I May sorrow with you far more tenderly Than those who never guess how sad a thing Seems merriment to one heart's suffering. (Quote by - Mrs. Frederic J. Faulks)
The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
He laughs best who laughs last. (Quote by - Old English Proverb)
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new. (Quote by - Elizabeth Hardwick)
I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry. (Quote by - Pierre de Beaumarchais)
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. (Quote by - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield)
Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin. (Quote by - John Brown)
Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth. (Quote by - Paul Hamilton Hayne)
To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. (Quote by - William Blake)
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. (Quote by - John Cleese)
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. (Quote by - Charlie Chaplin)
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. (Quote by - Arnold H. Glasgow)
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. (Quote by - Mort Walker)
And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. (Quote by - Lord Byron )
What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things. (Quote by - Dante )
