“And unquenchable laughter arose among the blessed gods.”
Homer
LaughterMythology
Humor Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · HUMOR
Humor Quotes
Read the best humor quotes on laughter, wit and seeing the funny side of life from Mark Twain, Chesterton, Shaw, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll and more.
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.”
Jonathan Swift
SatireSelf Awareness
“Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.”
Lord Chesterfield
MannersFunny
“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke.”
Herman Melville
LifePerspective
“We're all mad here.”
Lewis Carroll
FunnyShort Quotes
“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
J. M. Barrie
ChildhoodMagic
“If you want to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analysing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping; you'll get better results if you just watch him laugh.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
CharacterLaughter
“Laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation into nothing.”
Immanuel Kant
PhilosophyLaughter
“Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.”
Thomas Hobbes
PhilosophyLaughter
“Let not your laughter be loud, frequent, or unrestrained.”
Epictetus
Self ControlStoicism
“A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.”
Quintilian
KindnessVirtue
“Humour may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.”
Stephen Leacock
HumourDefinition
“Wit, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.”
Ambrose Bierce
WitFunny
“Jesters do oft prove prophets.”
William Shakespeare
TruthShort Quotes
“If it were not laughed at, it would not be fit to be the Tao.”
Lao Tzu
WisdomParadox
“Fortune comes in by a merry gate.”
Japanese Proverb
Good FortuneCheerfulness
“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.”
Yiddish Proverb
LaughterSoul
“Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing.”
The Bible (Psalm 126:2)
JoyLaughter
“Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:3)
SorrowWisdom
“As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:6)
FoolishnessWisdom
“Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.”
The Bible (Proverbs 14:13)
Hidden PainEmotions
“Therefore Sarah laughed within herself.”
The Bible (Genesis 18:12)
LaughterBible Stories
“As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, so is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?”
The Bible (Proverbs 26:18-19)
PranksWarning
“A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 10:19)
CelebrationLaughter
“He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh.”
The Bible (Psalm 2:4)
FaithLaughter