LAUGHTER QUOTES VI
quotations about laughter
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
WILLIAM CONGREVE
The Double Dealer
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa
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
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
ELEANOR FARJEON
Gypsy and Ginger
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
NICOLAS CHAMFORT
Maximes et pensees
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE
letter to his son, Mar. 9, 1748
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB
Bon-Mots
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
He laughs best who laughs last.
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Country House
It's hard ... to hate a man who laughs at himself and the rest of the world.
JO CLAYTON
Diadem from the Stars
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
"Inferior Religions"
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Laughter is America's most important export.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney
Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.
STEVE ALLEN
How to Be Funny
The best laughter is the dangerous kind. The kind where you realize you can't breathe, all the while awash with a strange, addictive euphoria from the sensation. Happiness of this sort is like an ancient, esteemed timeless beast that snags you, transforming your face into 100 percent plastered smile, half-closed eyes and creases galore -- an unnatural embouchure that still feels true to even the most dour of us. A relentless, uncontrollable shaking and falling and crying and pseudo-dying takes hold of your body. Esoteric utterances, shrieks and inimitable ululations force themselves out of your mouth ... you get the point.
AMIRI BANKS
"Empty Victories", The Cornell Daily Sun, April 3, 2016
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables