Laughter Quotes

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

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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

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

Paul McCartney

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Oscar Wilde

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

John Gillespie Magee

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

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

Bennett Alfred Cerf

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Bill Cosby

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

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

Bob Newhart

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

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

Searamouche

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

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Rosario Castellanos

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

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

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

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

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.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

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

Victor Hugo

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E e cummings

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

Allison Kearney

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one anothe.

Theodore Hesburgh