Laughter Quotes - page 2

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. (Thomas Hobbes)
Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. View quote
Virginia Woolf
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. View quote
Erma Bombeck
The house of laughter makes a house of woe. View quote
Edward Young
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. View quote
Mark Twain
Laughter is America's most important export. View quote
Walt Disney
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. View quote
Eileen Caddy
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. View quote
Ian Rankin
I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine. (Carol Vorderman)
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. View quote
Laura Ingalls Wilder
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. View quote
Jean Houston
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. View quote
Karl Barth
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable. View quote
James Thurber
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. View quote
Carl Sandburg
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. View quote
Lucille Ball
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Call a truce, then to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste For if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. (Robert Fulghum)
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. View quote
Stephen King
Laughter is by definition healthy. View quote
Doris Lessing
Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Strange when you come to think of it, that of all the countless folk who have lived before our time on this planet not one is known in history for in legend as having died of laughter. View quote
Max Beerbohm