Laughter Quotes

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
Bennett Alfred Cerf
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walke
Theodore hesburgh - i can think of no better way of redeeming this...
Friedrich nietzsche - perhaps i know why it is man alone who laughs he...
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
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 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 distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow
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 laughter of a man is the contentment of God.
John Weiss
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.
John Gillespie Magee
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
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
Anon.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
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 tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
Kahlil Gibran
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche
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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E e cummings
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 the first evidence of freedom.
Rosario Castellanos
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
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
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.
Henry Elliot
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
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, 1995
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
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 by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.
Susan M. Watkins
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)
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.
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