LAUGHTER QUOTES VI
quotations about laughter
Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.
MAX BEERBOHM
"Laughter", And Even Now
A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.
GEORGE POPE MORRIS
The New York Mirror, Mar. 12, 1831
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Aphorisms on Man
Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
HENRI BERGSON
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
The salvation of the world depends on the men whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
To laugh is proper to man.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
Gargantua
It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.
ELEANOR FARJEON
Gypsy and Ginger
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
ANNE LAMOTT
Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE
letter to his son, Mar. 9, 1748
You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB
Bon-Mots
He laughs best who laughs last.
JOHN VANBRUGH
The Country House
Laughter is America's most important export.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney
Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.
STEVE ALLEN
How to Be Funny
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful Jollity,
Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,
Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles,
Such as hang on Hebe's cheek,
And love to live in dimple sleek;
Sport that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter holding both his sides.
JOHN MILTON
L'Allegro
It's hard ... to hate a man who laughs at himself and the rest of the world.
JO CLAYTON
Diadem from the Stars
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY
Anne of Green Gables
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
HENRI BERGSON
Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic