Laughter
- Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.--Mark Twain (The Mysterious Stranger)
- Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.--Vaclav Havel
- The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.--Virginia Woolf
- The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.--David Icke
- Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.--Unknown
- But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.--Carl Sagan
- The Creator made humans able to walk and talk, to see and hear ... to do everything. But the Creator wasn't satisfied. Finally the Creator made humans laugh, and when they laughed and laughed, the Creator said, "Now you are fit to live."--Traditional Apache Story
- From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.--Helen Hayes ("On Reflection")
- Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.--Maxwell Maltz
- A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.--Irish proverb
- A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.--L. M. Montgomery
- A good laugh is sunshine in the house.--William Makepeace Thackeray
- A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.--Laura Ingalls Wilder
- He who laughs, lasts.--Mary Pettibone Poole
- The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.--Liz Curtis Higgs
- His laughter ... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.--Jospeh Lelyveld ("V. S. Pritchard, in Step With the Years, Writes On" in New York Times, Dec. 16, 1985)
- The human race has only one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.--Mark Twain
- Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.--Joan Chittister
- Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?--USA Today
- Humor is that which most efficiently recognizes that we are living in an imperfect world, with imperfect arguments and things that are insane, illogical, and irrational. And the only way we can live with that fact is to laugh.--J. Barsoux
- I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.--W. E. B. Du Bois
- I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.--Wilson Mizner
- I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.-—Linda Ellerbee
- I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.--Bob Hope
- If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And, if I can persuade you to laugh at a particular point that I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge it as true.--John Cleese
- If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.-- Charles Schulz
- If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.--Erma Bombeck
- If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.--Erma Bombeck
- If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.--Ed Howe
- If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.--Clarence Darrow
- If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.--Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- In every job, relationship, or life situation there is inevitably some turbulence. Learn to laugh at it. It is part of what you do and who you are.--Allen Klein (The Lift-Your-Spirits Quote Book)
- It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.--Wayne Dyer
- I've always thought a big laugh
is a really loud noise
from the soul saying
"Ain't that the truth."--Quincy Jones
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Laugh as much as possible, always laugh. It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself & one's fellow human beings.--Maya Angelo
- Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.--Alan Alda
- A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.--Thomas Carlyle
- 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 gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.--Bob Newhart
- Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.--Arnold Glasow
- Laughter is day, and sobriety is night: a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.--Henry Ward Beecher
- Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.--Oscar Wilde
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. --Victor Hugo
- Laughter is wine for the soul--laugh soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm... Once we can laugh, we can live.--Sean O'Casey
- Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.--Alan Cohen
- Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.--Katharine Hepburn
- A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.--Edgar A. Guest ("At Christmas")
- 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 have been.--William Hazlitt
- The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.--e. e. cummings
- The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.--Sebastien Roch Nicholas Chamfort (Maxims and Thoughts)
- Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.--Stephen Colbert
- Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe you can combat some of the ugliness in the world.--Goldie Hawn
- An onion can make you cry, but there never was a vegetable invented to make people laugh.--Will Rogers
- Perhaps this is why it is man alone who laughs: he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.--Friedrich Nietzsche
- A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.--Bennett Cerf
- She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.--Gail Parent
- Something special happens when people laugh together over something genuinely funny, and not hurtful to anyone. It's like a magic rain that showers down feelings of comfort, safety and belonging to a group.--Mary Jane Belfie
- The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.--Milan Kundera
- That is the best - to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.--Gloria Vanderbilt
- There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.--Niels Bohr
- Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.--Golda Meir
- To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. --William A. Ward
- The true end of a war is the rebirth of life; the right to die peacefully in your own bed. The true end of war is the end of fear; the true end of war is the return of laughter.--Alfredo Molano
- We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.--Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)
- Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.--Kahlil Gibran (Sand and Foam)
- You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.--Bill Cosby
- You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.--William Rotsler
- You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.--Stephen King
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