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

17.

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

Kundera, Milan

18.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

19.

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

20.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

21.

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

22.

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

Mizner, Wilson

23.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

24.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

Jay Leno

26.

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

Paul, Jean

27.

The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

28.

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

29.

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

Betty White

30.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

31.

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

Balzac, Honore De

32.

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

33.

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

Cousins, Norman

34.

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

35.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

36.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

37.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

38.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

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.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

41.

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

Holden, Robert

42.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

43.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

44.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Bodett, Tom

46.

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

James, William

47.

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

48.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

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Laughter translates into any language.

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