Laughter
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
- Bolingbroke
When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
- Byron, Lord
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
- Carlyle, Thomas
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
- Casanova, Giovanni G.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
- Morgenstern, Christian
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
- Repplier, Agnes
Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter; Sermons and soda-water the day after.
- Thomson, James
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
- Tyger, Frank
