1,453 Quotes About Laughter

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.

We have but the memories of past good cheer, we have but the echoes of departed laughter. In vain we look and listen for the mirth that has died away. In vain we seek to question the gray ghosts of old-time revelers.

I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously.

Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine.

To laugh is proper to man.

One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.