Laughter Quotes and Quotations
He laughs best who laughs last. To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. 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. Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
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