Quotes about laughter

"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."

Addison, Joseph on laughter
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"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."

Addison, Joseph on laughter   

"To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect."

Balzac, Honore De on laughter   

"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself."

Barrymore, Ethel on laughter
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

Barth, Karl on laughter
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"Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation."

Baudrillard, Jean on laughter   

"I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on laughter
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"I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on laughter   

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

Beecher, Henry Ward on laughter   

"Nobody ever died of laughter."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on laughter
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"Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable."

Bierce, Ambrose on laughter   

"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."

Bodett, Tom on laughter
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"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

Borge, Victor on laughter
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"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

Boswell, James on laughter
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"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."

Brown, A. Whitney on laughter   

"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all."

Bruyere, Jean De La on laughter   

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane."

Buffett, Jimmy on laughter
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"I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration."

Burns, Robert on laughter   

"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce."

Byron, Lord on laughter
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"Let there be more joy and laughter in your living."

Caddy, Eileen on laughter
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"Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man"

Carlyle, Thomas on laughter   

"The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception."

Carlyle, Thomas on laughter
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"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."

Carlyle, Thomas on laughter   

"The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on laughter
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"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

Chaplin, Charlie on laughter
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"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."

Chazal, Malcolm De on laughter   

"We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes."

Chazal, Malcolm De on laughter   

"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; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life."

Chazal, Malcolm De on laughter   

"Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners."

Chesterfield, Lord on laughter   

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"Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance."

Chesterfield, Lord on laughter   

"In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter."

Chesterfield, Lord on laughter   

"Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin."

Chrysosatom, St. John on laughter   

"Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God."

Connery, Sean on laughter   

"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors."

Cousins, Norman on laughter
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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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"There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing."

Dietrich, Marlene on laughter
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"If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on laughter
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"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together."

Eastman, Max on laughter   

"She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth."

Franklin, Benjamin on laughter
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"The more laws, the more offenders."

Fuller, Thomas on laughter