You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
—Malcolm de Chazal (1902–81) Mauritian Writer, Painter, Philosopher
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
—Wayne Dyer (1940–2015) American Self-Help Author
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.
—Irish Proverb
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
—John Cleese (b.1939) British Actor, Writer, Comic Innovator
A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–63) English Novelist
We don’t laugh because we’re happy—we’re happy because we laugh.
—William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
—Eileen Caddy (1917–2006) British Spiritual Teacher
Wrinkle not thy face with too much laughter, lest thou become ridiculous; neither wanton thy heart with too much mirth, lest thou become vain; the suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.
—Francis Quarles (1592–1644) English Religious Poet
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably depraved.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
—Gordon Allport (1897–1967) American Psychologist, Academic
Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.
—Norman Cousins (1912–1990) American Political Journalist
The more laws, the more offenders.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
—The Holy Quran Sacred Scripture of Islam
The earth laughs in flowers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
—Joseph Heller (1923–99) American Novelist
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English Novelist
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover you have wings.
—Helen Hayes (1900–93) American Actress, Philanthropist
There is no way under the sun of making a man worthy of love, except by loving him.
—Thomas Merton (1915–68) American Trappist Monk
Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.
—Japanese Proverb
They laugh well who laugh last.
—Common Proverb
I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill-health, and other evils of life, by mirth. I am persuaded that every time a man smiles—but much more so when he laughs—it adds something to this fragment of life.
—Laurence Sterne (1713–68) Irish Anglican Novelist, Clergyman
The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730–74) Irish Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Laughter’s the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It’s the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
—John Osborne (1929–94) English Playwright, Actor
Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, – all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
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