To laugh is to live profoundly.

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

The increasing seriousness of things, then that's the great opportunity of jokes.

And yet methinks the older that one grows
Inclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughter
Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

Laughing is just another way of showing people your wise

There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.

There is nothing more precious than laughter

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Laughter is a force for democracy.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

"To laugh is to live profoundly... The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness, "that delectable trance of happiness, that ultimate peak of delight. Laughter of delight, delight of laughter... it is an expression of being rejoicing at being...