To say more than this would only cause weeping and laughter.
Smile Quotes
Shakespeare, Byron, Lord Chesterfield, John Cleese and Milton share the top. Because the topic takes in laughter, the sourced material is dry. Bierce, in 1911, defines laughter as an interior convulsion producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. Mencken, in 1949, defines a creator as a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. Einstein, in 1953, warns that whoever sets himself up as a judge of truth is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Three popular lines are marked misattributed. “A day without laughter is a day wasted” is credited to Charlie Chaplin, and the notes quote an older and longer passage making the same point. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a poem about the thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile, a smile, to Wilbur D. Nesbit.
I understand the value of humor and I do believe laughter is a good medicine.
Directly the mulberry tree begins to make you circle, break off. Pelt the tree with laughter.
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
I prefer the liberation and release of laughter to the boring repetition of tragedy and melodrama.
Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.
Where does the laughter wander that decorated life/when your heart gathered my sadnesses?
Ill may a sad mind forge a merry face,
Nor hath constrainèd laughter any grace.