1,453 Quotes About Laughter

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me?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.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

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

I make myself laugh at everything, so that I do not weep.