21 Quotes About Laughter

A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "The rejoicing of hope."

Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.

Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

You cannot study pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face.

Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music.

Of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.