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Laughter Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the…
- Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
- One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
- God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
More Laughter Quotes
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.' — Harvey Ball
- I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives,… — Lucille Ball
- Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you. — Joey Adams
- Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. — Karl Barth
- When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No… — John Adams