Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Laughter

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
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
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 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 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 can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.--Wilson Mizner
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.--Bob Hope
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'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 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
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 is a tranquilizer with no side effects.--Arnold Glasow
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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