You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

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

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.

The earth laughs in flowers.

If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Every new time will give its law.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Laughter is higher than all pain.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.