Laughter Quotes

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

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey, 1995

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

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

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712

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

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

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

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Bennett Alfred Cerf

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Anon.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes

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

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Jean Houston

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Peter Ustinov

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

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

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

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

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E e cummings

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

Allison Kearney