Laughter Quotes
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.The Talmud
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.Bob Newhart
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
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
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.Gordon William Allport
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
Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter - Silvered wings.John Gillespie Magee
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
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.Arnold Glasgow
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.Mark Twain
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
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
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey, 1995
What was significant about the laughter... was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person... a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.Norman Cousins
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
Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.Irish Prove
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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 inner jogging.Norman Cousins
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.Groucho Marx
Seven days without laughter makes one weak.Mort Walke
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.Oscar Wilde
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.Albert Einstein
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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.Paul McCartney
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.Anon.
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)
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
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.Paul McCartney
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.E e cummings
The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.John Weiss
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
Laughter is by definition healthy.Doris Lessing
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
