LAUGHTER QUOTES
quotations about laughter
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
AUDREY HEPBURN
How to Be Lovely
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The Spectator, Sept. 26, 1712
By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Laughter is an amazing way to explore your imagination and the minds of others. It's also a great way to think critically and transcend the darker elements of existence.
ANDREW FRANK
"'Make Me Laugh' stand-up comedy contest comes to Norman for semifinals", The Oklahoma Daily, April 5, 2016
Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.
JENNIFER LEE CARRELL
Interred With Their Bones
He who laughs ... lasts.
ERMA BOMBECK
Forever, Erma
My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life.
PABLO NERUDA
"Your Laughter"
The only honest art form is laughter.
LENNY BRUCE
The Essential Lenny Bruce
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
ANONYMOUS
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?
FULKE GREVILLE
Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol
It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol
But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.
MAX BEERBOHM
"Laughter", And Even Now
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
THOMAS SZASZ
The Second Sin
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
JAMES THURBER
New York Times Magazine, Dec. 7, 1958
However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.
HENRI BERGSON
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.
JIM BUTCHER
Proven Guilty
Even in despair, man must laugh.
LIN YUTANG
Between Tears and Laughter
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Solitude