Laughter Quotes
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
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.Anon.
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.Rosario Castellanos
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
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.E e cummings
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.Paul McCartney
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.The Talmud
Laughter is by definition healthy.Doris Lessing
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
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
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.Victor Borge
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)
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.Mort Walke
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
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
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
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
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
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.Mark Twain
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.Peter Ustinov
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
All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.Bob Newhart
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.John Gillespie Magee
Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.Eugene Lam
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
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 sun that drives winter from the human face.Victor Hugo
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.John Weiss
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 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
