Laughter Quotes
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.
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.John Weiss
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
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.Gordon William Allport
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.Searamouche
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.Henry Mille
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
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
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
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
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.Helen Luke
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.E. H. Chapin
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey, 1995
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
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
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
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.John Gillespie Magee
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.Bob Newhart
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.Henry Elliot
Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.Unknown
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.Anon.
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 complete rapture vocalized.Allison Kearney
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.Bill Cosby
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.Jean Houston
Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon? laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution? these can lift at a colossal humbug? push it a little? weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, chapter 10 (1916)
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
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
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.Victor Borge
