LAUGHTER QUOTES VI

quotations about laughter

laughter quote

A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

GEORGE POPE MORRIS

The New York Mirror, Mar. 12, 1831


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


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

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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa

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He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. This is very strange if you stop to think of it: that otherwise sane and responsible citizens should devote their professional energies to causing others to make sharp, explosive barking-like exhalations.

STEVE ALLEN

Funny People


Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Anne of Green Gables

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Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

CHARLES LAMB

Bon-Mots

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It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

ELEANOR FARJEON

Gypsy and Ginger


Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

JIM BUTCHER

Changes


Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

"Inferior Religions"


To laugh is proper to man.

FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Gargantua

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Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me?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


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

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He laughs best who laughs last.

JOHN VANBRUGH

The Country House


There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is laughter at its best. A man to whom such laughter has often been granted may happen to die in a work-house. No matter. I will not admit that he has failed in life. Another man, who has never laughed thus, may be buried in Westminster Abbey, leaving more than a million pounds overhead. What then? I regard him as a failure.

MAX BEERBOHM

"Laughter", And Even Now


Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

VACLAV HAVEL

Disturbing the Peace

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It's hard ... to hate a man who laughs at himself and the rest of the world.

JO CLAYTON

Diadem from the Stars

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