Famous Laugh Quotes



Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Khalil Gibran

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Fontaine

We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh.

William James

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Virginia Woolf

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Quintilian

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas De Quincey

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

Thomas Carlyle

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Robert Browning

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

Edmond de Goncourt

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Khalil Gibran

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A friend is someone who can make you laugh even in the darkest of times.

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Jane Austen

With a true friend, laughter feels lighter, and sorrow feels shared. It’s not that they change the storm — they just help you carry the umbrella.

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

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