The laughers are a majority.—Pope.
Learn from the earliest days to inure your principles against the perils of ridicule: you can no more exercise your reason, if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.—Sydney Smith.
How much lies in laughter: the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man!—Carlyle.
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.—Leigh Hunt.
How inevitably does an immoderate laughter end in a sigh!—South.
Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face.—Jeremy Taylor.
Laughter means sympathy.—Carlyle.
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.—De Witt Talmage.
I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh.—Chesterfield.
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shower at the same time pearls and the soul.—Victor Hugo.