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

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

20.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

21.

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

The Talmud

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

24.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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.

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

Kundera, Milan

27.

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

West, Mae

28.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

29.

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

Edgar Watson Howe

30.

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

Joseph Addison

31.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

35.

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

36.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

37.

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

Bill Nye

38.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

39.

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

40.

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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.

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

Mizner, Wilson

43.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

44.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

46.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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.

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

49.

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

50.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer