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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
-Japanese Proverb
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
-Anon.
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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.
-Proverb
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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
-Joseph Addison
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
-Joseph Addison
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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
-Honore de Balzac
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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
-Ethel Barrymore
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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
-Karl Barth
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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.
-Jean Baudrillard
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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
-Pierre De Beaumarchais
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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
-Pierre De Beaumarchais
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety--all this rust of life--ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
-Max Beerbohm
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Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
-Ambrose Bierce
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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
-Tom Bodett
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
-Victor Borge
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-A. Whitney Brown
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
-Jimmy Buffett
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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
-Robert Burns
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
-Eileen Caddy
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Books about Laughter
