Laughter Quotes

81 quotations about Laughter
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison · Laughter
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
Honore De Balzac · Laughter
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
Ethel Barrymore · Laughter
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth · Laughter
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
Pierre De Beaumarchais · Laughter
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
Pierre De Beaumarchais · Laughter
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Sir Max Beerbohm · Laughter
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge · Laughter
There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell · Laughter
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
A. Whitney Brown · Laughter
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean De La Bruyere · Laughter
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
Jimmy Buffett · Laughter
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Lord Byron · Laughter
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Eileen Caddy · Laughter
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
Thomas Carlyle · Laughter
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle · Laughter
The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort · Laughter
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin · Laughter
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
Malcolm De Chazal · Laughter
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Lord Chesterfield · Laughter
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Lord Chesterfield · Laughter
Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
St. John Chrysosatom · Laughter
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Norman Cousins · Laughter
The earth laughs in flowers.
E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings · Laughter
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Max Eastman · Laughter

Authors on Laughter

Joseph Addison Honore De Balzac Ethel Barrymore Karl Barth Pierre De Beaumarchais Sir Max Beerbohm Victor Borge James Boswell A. Whitney Brown Jean De La Bruyere Jimmy Buffett Lord Byron Eileen Caddy Thomas Carlyle Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort Charlie Chaplin Malcolm De Chazal Lord Chesterfield St. John Chrysosatom Norman Cousins