Quotes about laughter

"I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry."

Prowdzik, Shaun on laughter
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"That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency."

Quinton, John on laughter
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"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."

Repplier, Agnes on laughter
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"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."

Rice, Anne on laughter   

"Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer."

Rochlin, Harriet on laughter   

"Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on laughter   

"They laugh well who laugh last."

Saying on laughter   

"It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it."

Seneca on laughter   

"No one is laughable who laughs at himself."

Seneca on laughter   

"Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."

Shakespeare, William on laughter   

"Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise."

South, Bishop Robert on laughter   

"I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh."

Stanhope, Philip Dormer on laughter   

"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life."

Sterne, Laurence on laughter   

"The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself."

Tagore, Rabindranath on laughter
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"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

Thackeray, William M. on laughter   

"A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash."

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork on laughter   

"We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

Thurber, James on laughter   

"The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal."

Thurber, James on laughter   

"The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Twain, Mark on laughter
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"You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it."

Unknown, Source on laughter   

"You can judge a man by what he laughs at."

Unknown, Source on laughter   

"When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are."

Unknown, Source on laughter   

"The shortest distance between two people is laughter."

Unknown, Source on laughter   

"It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."

Unknown, Source on laughter   

"If you can laugh at it then you can live with it"

Unknown, Source on laughter   

"People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter."

Walsh, Dr. James A on laughter   

"It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any."

West, Mae on laughter
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"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on laughter
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"Crying is an emotional cold, and laughter is the emotional cure."

Kessler, Daniella on laughter   

"You can fake an orgasm, but you can't fake laughter."

Dylan, Bob on laughter