Laughter Quotes

Their [Christian scholars] continual cry is: "I am right, for it is written"-and then follows an explanation so shameless and capricious that a philologist, when he hears it, must stand stock-still between anger and laughter, asking himself again and again: Is it possible? Is it honest? Is it even decent?

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman-a devil!

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

Work is undoubtedly worship but laughter is life. Anyone who takes life too seriously must prepare himself for a miserable existence. Anyone who greets joys and sorrows with equal facility can really get the best of life.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it's like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn't exist at all.

Love, friendship, laughter... some of the best things in life really are free.

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

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

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature - or go insane.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

It is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.