No more Latin, no more French,
No more sitting on a hard board bench.
No more beetles in my tea,
Making googly eyes at me;
No more spiders in my bath
Trying hard to make me laugh.
Anonymous
Some women blush when they are kissesd; some call for the police; some swear; some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
Auden W.H. 1907-1973
The Dyer's Hand
Among those whom I like, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
Barrie J.M. 1860-1937
Peter Pan
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
Browne Sir Thomas 1605-1682
The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
Bruce Lenny 1925-1966
The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.
Campbell Mrs Patrick 1865-1940
Do you know why God withheld the sense of humour from women?
So that we might love men instead of laugh at them.
CATULLUS c.84-c.54 BC
Carmina
For there is nothing sillier than a silly laugh.
Congreve William 1670-1729
The Double Dealer
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh; Jesu, ‘tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
Creighton Bishop
Never laugh feebly at what you know is wrong.
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
The Deserted Village
The watchdog's voice that bayed the whisp'ring wind,
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.
The KORAN
He deserves paradise who makes his companions laugh.
La Bruyere Jean de 1645-1696
Les Caractères, ‘Du coeur'
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
Lamb Charles 1775-1834
Letter to Southey
Anything awful makes me laugh. I mis-behaved once at a funeral.
Loos Anita 1893-1981
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Fun is fun but no girl wants to laugh all of the time.
Masefield John 1878-1967
Laugh and Be Merry
Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song.
Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.
Mencken H.L. 1880-1956
God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
Moliére 1622-1673
La Critique de l'école des femmes
It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Man
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies,
And catch the Manners living as they rise.
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Repplier Agnes 1858-1950
It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
Rhys Jean 1894-1979
Good Morning, Midnight
Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.
Rouault Georges 1871-1958
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Shelley Percy Bysshe 1792-1822
‘The Cloud'
I silently laugh at my own cenotaph,
And out of the caverns of rain,
Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from
the tomb,
I arise and unbuild it again.
Spinoza Baruch 1632-1677
Tractatus Politicus
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.
Sterne Laurence 1713-1768
Tristram Shandy
As we jog on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do anything - only keep your temper.
Tolkien J.R.R. 1892-1973
The Hobbit
Never laugh at live dragons.
Wilcox Ella Wheeler 1855-1919
‘Solitude'
Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Williamson Nicol
If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her.