Inspirational Quotes on Laughter

“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."”

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

“A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.”

“The distance had been evaporated by humor”

“Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.”

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

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

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

“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Ако смехът е забранен в рая, не искам да отивам там.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”