Laughter

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Quotes on laughter, which can be an audible expression of merriment and amusement or an inward feeling of joy and pleasure.

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
  • Henry Ward Beecher, in Royal Truths (1869), p. 248

• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
  • Edmund Burke in the Preface to Brissot's Address to his Constituents (1794)

• Scholars of the highest class, when they hear about the Tao, take it and practice it earnestly.
  Scholars of the middle class, when they hear of it, take it half earnestly.
  Scholars of the lowest class, when they hear of it, laugh at it.
  Without the laughter, there would be no Tao.
  • Laozi in the Tao Te Ching

• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche in The Will to Power [Der Wille zur Macht] (1888)

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• I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
  • Woody Allen

• Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
  • Victor Borge

• A laugh to be joyous must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness there can be no true joy.
  • Thomas Carlyle

• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
  • E. E. Cummings

• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, next they fight you. Then you win.
  • Mahatma Gandhi

• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe

• Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.
  • Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

• At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
  • Jean Houston

• Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.
  • Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

• A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
  • Charles Lamb

• A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why sometimes in life, it's the only weapon we have.
  • Roger Rabbit

• They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
  • Carl Sagan

• Laugh at yourself and smile at others!
  • Leonid S. Sukhorukov

• One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.
  • Thomas De Witt Talmage

• Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian.
  • William Makepeace Thackeray

• God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
  • Voltaire

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• Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
  • Variant: Blessed are they that can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.

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