laughter

1.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

- Milton Berle

2.

Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if faint and forced the laughter, and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

- Kipling, Rudyard

3.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

- Thackeray, William M.

4.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

- Luther, Martin

5.

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

- Mandino, Og

6.

What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

- Johnson, Samuel

7.

The earth laughs in flowers.

- Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

8.

Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.

- W. Lee Grant

9.

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

- Connery, Sean

10.

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

- Pearse, Patrick Henry

11.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation.

- Hugo, Victor

12.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

- Boswell, James

13.

Good Friday, Easter Day, and Ascension, are set as great lights in the firmament of the spiritual year;--to remind us that we are not animals born to do what we like, and fulfil the simple lusts of the flesh--but that we are rational moral beings, members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, and that, therefore, like Christ, we must die in order to live, stoop in order to conquer. They remind us that honour must grow out of humility; that freedom must grow out of discipline; that sure conquest must be born of heavy struggles; righteous joy out of righteous sorrow; pure laughter out of pure tears; true strength out of the true knowledge of our own weakness; sound peace of mind out of sound contrition.

- All Saints' Day Sermons. 1871.

14.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

- Eliot, George

15.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

- Holden, Robert

17.

He who laughs, lasts!

- Mary Pettibone Poole

18.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

- Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

19.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

20.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.

- Paul McCartney