Laughter Quotes

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney
Max beerbohm - nobody ever died of laughter....
Ralph waldo emerson - the essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to...
We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walke
Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.
Eugene Lam
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.
Henry Elliot
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey, 1995
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.
Susan M. Watkins
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Cicero
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
Joseph Addison
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Julius Henry Marx
May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
Anne Rice
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon William Allport
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry.
Unknown
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
Anon.
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
Irish Prove
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.
Henry Mille
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.
John Weiss
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self - Same well from which your laughter rises was often - Times filled with your tears.
Rene Descartes
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.
Helen Luke
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.
Unknown
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle