Quotes on Laughter

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing.

Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

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

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

Man is the artificer of his own happiness.

Rhetoric is not important. Actions are.