The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.

Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be a vegetarian.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.

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 reliefs 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.

All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.

Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.

Laughter is inner jogging.

Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll amoung the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn cathedral?

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon?laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution?these can lift at a colossal humbug?push it a little?weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.

Laughter is an instant vacation

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

Pigs get fat hogs get slaughtered.

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.

I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse.