| Author |
Quotes |
| Robert Burns | The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. |
| Rosario Castellanos | We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. |
| Shirley MacLaine | The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. |
| Sir Noel Coward | Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade. |
| Sydney Smith | Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death. |
| Victor Hugo | Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. |
| William Blake | When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by, When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. |
| William Hazlitt | Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been. |
| Wilson Mizner | I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. |
| George Herbert | Laugh not too much, the witty man laughs least, For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh, lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
| Horatius Flaccus | For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. |
| Homer | And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. |
| Joseph Addison | Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. |
| Mark Twain | The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. |
| Oscar Wilde | Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. |
| Thomas Carlyle | How much lies in Laughter, the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. |
| Thomas Carlyle | no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. |
| Thomas Carlyle | A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. |
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