Laughter quotations

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◆ It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

- Stephen Fry99

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

- Mark Twain99

◆ Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

- Erma Bombeck99

◆ Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ Laughter is poison to fear.

- George R.R. Martin99

◆ Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.

- W.H. Auden99

◆ If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky99

◆ You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

- Cassandra Clare99

◆ I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

- Herman Melville99

◆ But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.

- George Gordon Byron99

◆ Laughter is carbonated holiness.

- Anne Lamott99

◆ I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

- Billy Joel99

◆ You'll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.

- Mandy Hale99