Quotes about Laughter
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
— Washington Irving
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
— Danny Boyle
She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.
— Dorothy Sayers
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
— Martin Luther
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
— St. Basil
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
— Martin Luther
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
May God grant us the grace to laugh at ourselves.
— Ray Blackston
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.
— Kesha
Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.
— Hippocrates