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

16.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

17.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

18.

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

20.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

21.

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

22.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

23.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

24.

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

25.

If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

26.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

27.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

28.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

29.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

30.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

31.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

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

Bob Newhart

33.

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

34.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

35.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

36.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

37.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

38.

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

Byron, Lord

39.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

40.

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, Robert

41.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

42.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

46.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

47.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.