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Quotes About Laughter

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.
~ Elie Wiesel
There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Many people will laugh at the drop of a hat, especially if the man is still in it.
~ Evan Esar
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
~ George Bernard Shaw
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
~ George Herbert
They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death," Ned said evenly. "Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
~ George R. R. Martin
You don't know what it is to live and laugh and love and run a man through! You've never tasted salty air on your tongue or waved heartily at a mermaid!
~ Gideon Defoe
The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.
~ Glenway Wescott
When they start killing the men of ideas, you can be sure the Devil is laughing.
~ Mark Mills
Humor is man's greatest blessing.
~ Mark Twain
Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh
~ Michael Palin
My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
~ Mike Myers
I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.
~ Nick Offerman
I could hear him laughing. Son of a bit*h. I would kill him. I didn't care if he was coyote or the son of Satan.He was a dead man walking.
~ Patricia Briggs
I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
~ Peta Wilson
Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
~ Rachel Stevens
My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
~ Rafe Spall
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
~ Herman Melville
There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.
~ James Lileks
I'm a sucker for a man who giggles-not a high-pitched serial-killer sort of giggle, but a lighthearted laugh.
~ Jancee Dunn