Laughter Quotes
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.Victor Borge
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.Friedrich Nietzsche
The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.Bennett Alfred Cerf
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.Susan M. Watkins
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.Arnold Glasgow
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
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.Searamouche
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.Gordon William Allport
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
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
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
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
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.
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.Henry Mille
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey, 1995
Laughter is inner jogging.Norman Cousins
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 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
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, 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 closest thing to the grace of God.Karl Barth
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.Bob Newhart
Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.Rosario Castellanos
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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)
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.Paul McCartney
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 complete rapture vocalized.Allison Kearney
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.Jean Houston
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
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
Nobody ever died of laughter.Max Beerbohm
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
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
