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

Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
Margaret Sackville

Laughter is inner jogging.
Norman Cousins

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
Malcolm De Chazal

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.
Jasper Carrott

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
Mort Walker

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.
Edmond de Goncourt

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
Josh Billings

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Yakov Smirnoff

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin

Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
Wavy Gravy

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Max Eastman