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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

22.

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

23.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

24.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

25.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

26.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

27.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

29.

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

Cousins, Norman

30.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

32.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

33.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

34.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

35.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

36.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

37.

We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

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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

39.

The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

41.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

42.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

43.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

44.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

45.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

46.

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

Holden, Robert

47.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

48.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

49.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

50.

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

Proverb, French