Laughter Quotes

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712
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
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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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney
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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
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walke
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 an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
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
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
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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
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
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.
John Gillespie Magee
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
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
Irish Prove
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.
Rosario Castellanos
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
Bennett Alfred Cerf
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche
May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
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
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov