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.
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
Laughter is a basic human need, along with love, and food, and an HBO subscription.
I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
In all of living have much of fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.