Laughter Quotes
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.Mark Twain
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey, 1995
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.E e cummings
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.Henry Elliot
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.Bennett Alfred Cerf
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.Peter Ustinov
The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.Paul McCartney
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
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
Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.Allison Kearney
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.The Talmud
What was significant about the laughter... was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person... a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.Norman Cousins
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
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
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
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
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.Unknown
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.Rosario Castellanos
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.Victor Borge
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)
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 is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.Eugene Lam
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.Jean Houston
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.Thomas Hobbes
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
