Laughter Quotes

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Anon.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, September 26, 1712

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

Allison Kearney

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.

Paul McCartney

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

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

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

Eugene Lam

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

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

Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

Thomas Hobbes

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.

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

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

Albert Einstein

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E e cummings

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Julius Henry Marx

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Prove

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - - And laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

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)

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

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything - - Even poverty - - You can survive it.

Bill Cosby

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

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Maryanne Radmacher - Hershey, 1995

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

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

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport

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