“That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.”
“Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.”
“Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.”
“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
“There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”
“No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.”
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
“I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.”
“It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.”
“Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.”
“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.”
“If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.”
“The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.”
“Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.”
“Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.”
“If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.”
“The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.”
“Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.”
“One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.”
“The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.”
“There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.”
“I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.”
“We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.”
“What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.”
“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
“The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.”
“Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.”
“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.”
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.”