LAUGHTER QUOTES VI
quotations about laughter
To laugh is proper to man.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Maximes et pensees
Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
VACLAV HAVEL
Disturbing the Peace
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
HENRI BERGSON
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
The salvation of the world depends on the men whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
ELEANOR FARJEON
Gypsy and Ginger
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE
letter to his son, Mar. 9, 1748
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB
Bon-Mots
He laughs best who laughs last.
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Country House
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful Jollity,
Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek;
Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
JOHN MILTON
L'Allegro
It's hard ... to hate a man who laughs at himself and the rest of the world.
JO CLAYTON
Diadem from the Stars
Laughter is America's most important export.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney
Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.
STEVE ALLEN
How to Be Funny
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Just because there's a war going on doesn't mean people aren't laughing. In fact, in some of these absurd situations, laughing is the only thing you could do to make sense of it.
KIM BARKER
"War is once again a laughing matter", News OK, March 8, 2016