Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. – Anon.
Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease. – Proverb
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. – Joseph Addison
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
To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. – Honore de Balzac
You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself. – Ethel Barrymore
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. – Pierre De Beaumarchais
Mirth is Gods 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
Nobody ever died of laughter. – Max Beerbohm
Laughter — An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. – Ambrose Bierce
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh. – Tom Bodett
If we couldnt laugh, we would all go insane. – Jimmy Buffett
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
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. – Eileen Caddy
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. – Thomas Carlyle
