When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. Lord Byron
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Thomas Carlyle
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more. Giovanni G. Casanova
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. Christian Morgenstern
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! Agnes Repplier
Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter; Sermons and soda-water the day after. James Thomson
To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity. Bolingbroke
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. Frank Tyger