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

18.

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

19.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

20.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

21.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

24.

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

Luther, Martin

25.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

26.

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

Jimmy Buffett

27.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

28.

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

29.

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

West, Mae

30.

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

31.

No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Paul, Jean

32.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

33.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

34.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

35.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

36.

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

37.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

38.

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

41.

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

42.

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

Twain, Mark

43.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

44.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

47.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

49.

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

50.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.