LAUGHTER QUOTES VI
quotations about laughter
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
The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Enchiridion
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Laughter is the old port in the storm of life that if lucky, sees many of us through many turbulent times, and can be found anywhere if we just lighten up.
KAREN BERGEN
"Laughter and Humour", My Steinbach, March 25, 2016
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
HENRI BERGSON
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
Laughter is the hiccup of a fool.
W. GRESLEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
He laughs best who laughs last.
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Country House
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Maximes et pensees
Laughter is America's most important export.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney
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
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
ELEANOR FARJEON
Gypsy and Ginger
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, Dictionary of Quotations in Communications
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
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
"Inferior Religions"
It's hard ... to hate a man who laughs at himself and the rest of the world.
JO CLAYTON
Diadem from the Stars
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings....
And, while with lifting mind I've trod
The high, untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
JOHN GILLESPIE MAGEE
"High Flight", The Complete Works of John Magee, the Pilot Poet
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith