LAUGHTER QUOTES VI
quotations about laughter
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
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa
Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, Dictionary of Quotations in Communications
It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
ELEANOR FARJEON
Gypsy and Ginger
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB
Bon-Mots
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
Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.
MAX BEERBOHM
"Laughter", And Even Now
Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.
JIM BUTCHER
Changes
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
To laugh is proper to man.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.
WYNDHAM LEWIS
"Inferior Religions"
He laughs best who laughs last.
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Country House
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
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful Jollity,
Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek;
Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
JOHN MILTON
L'Allegro
Laughter is America's most important export.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney