Laughter Quotes

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

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

Eugene Lam

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey

Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.

Unknown

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

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

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

Anon.

For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

Jean Houston

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo

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

Bennett Alfred Cerf

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

Arnold Glasgow

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

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

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

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

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

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

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.

John Gillespie Magee

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

Allison Kearney

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

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

What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.

Searamouche

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca