Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

26.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

27.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

28.

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

29.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

31.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

32.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

33.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

34.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

35.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

36.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

37.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

38.

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

39.

We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

40.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

41.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

42.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

44.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

45.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

46.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

47.

Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

48.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

49.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

50.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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