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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.
George Santayana

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Theodor Geisel

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. Auden

In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative; fight, flee - or laugh.
Robert Orben

If you can laugh together, you can work together.
Robert Orben

I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
Kanye West

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.
William James

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.
William James

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour.
Richard Pryor

There's a thin line between to laugh with and to laugh at.
Richard Pryor

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.
Carol Burnett

A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
Wanda Sykes

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
Wanda Sykes

I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.
Jo Brand

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle

You'd better get your laugh while you're making your point, or you won't be doing it very long.
Shel Silverstein

If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.
Jim Valvano

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
Thomas Szasz

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey