I quickly laugh at everything,
for fear of having to cry.
?Pierre de Beaumarchais
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
The human race has one really effective
weapon, and that is laughter.
?Mark Twain
The most wasted of all days
is one without laughter.
?e e cummings
Laughter is by definition healthy.
?Doris Lessing
Man is distinguished from all other
creatures by the faculty of laughter.
?Joseph Addison
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for
which no remedy exists, unless laughter
can be said to remedy anything.
?Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
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.
?Luke
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear,
but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider
than the distance between our eyes.
?Chazal
Nothing shows a man's character
more than what he laughs at.
?Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man is the only animal that laughs
and weeps; for he is the only animal
that is struck with the difference
between what things are
and what they might of been.
?William Hazlitt
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
?Johann Kaspar Lavater
That laughter costs too much which is
purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
?Quintilian
Life does not cease to be funny
when people die; any more than it ceases
to be serious when people laugh.
?George Bernard Shaw
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
?Anonymous
When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what
people do and not at what people are.
?Anonymous
Learn from the earliest days to insure
your principles against the perils of
ridicule; you can no more exercise
your reason if you live in the constant
dread of laughter, that you can enjoy
your life if you are
in the constant terror of death.
?Sydney Smith