laughter quotes

• There is little success where there is little laughter. (Andrew Carnegie) [laughter]
• If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it. (Joseph Addison) [laughter]
• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation. (Jean Baudrillard) [laughter/television/countries/business]
• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. (Henry Ward Beecher) [laughter/day/night/smile]
• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. (Victor Borge) [laughter/people]
• There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. (James Boswell) [laughter/love]
• Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. (Eileen Caddy) [laughter/life]
• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. (Eileen Caddy) [more/joy/laughter]
• Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man (Thomas Carlyle) [laughter]
• Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [laughter/etiquette]
• In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [mind/laughter]
• Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [laughter/willpower/knowledge/contempt]
• Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. (Sean Connery) [laughter/fear/fear/faith]
• There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing. (Marlene Dietrich) [time/laughter/remember]
• Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. (Max Eastman) [laughter/speech/thing/society]
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. (Albert Einstein) [truth/knowledge/laughter]
• In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. (George Eliot) [laughter/wisdom/applause]
• The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. (Oliver Goldsmith) [laughter]
• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. (Victor Hugo) [laughter/sun/human/face]
• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars --all the beauties of creation. (Victor Hugo) [reality/find/laughter/light]
• Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs. (Samuel Johnson) [look/laughter/dancing]
• 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. (Rudyard Kipling) [feast/caste/laughter/sadness]
• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. (Milan Kundera) [sound/laughter/happiness]
• Laughter is by definition healthy. (Doris Lessing) [laughter]
• From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. (Groucho Marx) [moment/laughter/day/reading]
• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. (Michel Eyquem De Montaig) [laughter]
• Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [laughter]
• The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation. (Anne Rice) [truth/laughter/more/perfect]
• He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony. (Rafael Sabatini) [laughter]
• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. [Merchant Of Venice] (William Shakespeare) [laughter]
• The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter. (Mark Twain) [human/laughter]

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