Laughter Quotes

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Rosario castellanos - laughter is the first evidence of freedom....
Bennett alfred cerf - the person who can bring the spirit of laughter...
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
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
Kahlil Gibran
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 man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
Cicero
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.
John Gillespie Magee
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.
John Weiss
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
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
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - That man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.
Cicero
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.
Henry Elliot
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart
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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney
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
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasgow
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
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
May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey
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
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
The Talmud
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.
Unknown
We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walke
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge