Quotes

He laughs best who laughs last.
-English Proverb

I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
-Richard Watson Gilder

The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.
-Elizabeth Hardwick

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
-Carol Channing

When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
-Anonymous Author

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
-H L Mencken

Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.
-John Brown

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
-Pierre de Beaumarchais

What I saw was equal ecstasy: One universal smile it seemed of all things.
-Dante Alighieri

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

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
-Quintilian

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
-Carolyn Llewellyn

And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.
-Lord Byron

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-Kurt Vonnegut Jr

Laugh, if thou art wise.
-Martial

Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.
-Elsa Maxwell

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.
-Margaret Mead

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.
-Ed Howe

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
-Raymond Hitchcock

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
-Charlie Chaplin

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
-Jean de la Bruyere

He is not always at ease who laughs.
-Dante Alighieri

The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
-Nicholas Chamfort

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

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
-Puzant Kevork Thomajan

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

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
-Bible

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
-Anonymous Author

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
-Johann Kaspar Lavater

Laughter is by definition healthy.
-Doris Lessing

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
-Peter Ustinov