Blessing Quote by Agnes Repplier

On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

— Hartley Coleridge

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind…

— Joseph Addison

If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations,…

— Agnes Repplier

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

— Mark Twain

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack…

— Evelyn Waugh

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience…

— James Thurber

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest,…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach…

— Agnes Repplier

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

— Lawrence Block

Humor is the sunshine of the mind.

— Anonymous

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into…

— Ogden Nash