Laughter Quotes
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.Searamouche
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 would be bereaved if snobbery died.Peter Ustinov
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
Nobody ever died of laughter.Max Beerbohm
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.Mark Twain
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
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
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.Bob Newhart
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.E e cummings
Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.Unknown
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
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.Friedrich Nietzsche
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.Henry Elliot
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
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.Anon.
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.John Weiss
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)
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 human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
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
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.Karl Barth
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.Gordon William Allport
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.Paul McCartney
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
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.Arnold Glasgow
