Quotes on Laughter

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another?

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

There is nothing more precious than laughter

I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.