Laughter Quotes

You have as much laughter as you have faith.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Benjamin Franklin

The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Mark Twain

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Mark Twain

Laughter is nothing else but a 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

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Milan Kundera

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Abraham Lincoln

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Thomas Carlyle

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Thomas Carlyle

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

William Osler

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stran

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

Bishop Robert South

Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Kurt Vonnegut

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Japanese Proverb

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Pierre De Beaumarchais

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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