Laughter Quotes

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

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

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

John Weiss

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

Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

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

Susan M. Watkins

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

Jean Houston

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

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

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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

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

Eugene Lam

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

Victor Hugo

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

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Mort Walke

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

Virginia

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

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

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.

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Prove

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

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

Paul McCartney

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

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

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport

If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.

Henry Elliot

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

Mark Twain

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

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

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

Anon.

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

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.

Unknown

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