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Laughter Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of…
- Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
- I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly…
- Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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