Laughter

Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844â€“1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. – Woody Allen

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. – Jean Houston

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. – Author Unknown

Sometimes I laugh so hard the tears run down my leg. – Author Unknown

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts,” Saturday Night Live

The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. – SÃ©bastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort), translated from French

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! – Agnes Repplier

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. – Gordon W. Allport

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. – Victor Borge

There is little success where there is little laughter. – Andrew Carnegie

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. – Yiddish Proverb

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. – Bob Newhart

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. – Puzant Kevork Thomajan

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. – FranÃ§oise Sagan

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. – Henri Bergson

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

For one seldom hears a genuine laugh nowadays, and much of the phraseology of laughter is a mere fashion of speech. There are many people whose sides have never ached from over-indulgence in the outward expression of mirth…. With some persons a wheeze or a chuckle is the utmost they can compass. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889

Some men laugh habitually in falsetto…. We remember once to have heard a feminine laugh so painfully and regularly tuneful that it could literally have been reduced to musical notation. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. – Kurt Vonnegut