Ancestry Quote by Eric Hoffer

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness…

— Agnes Repplier

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

— Deepak Chopra

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others,…

— Thomas Hobbes

Laughter is a Trojan horse to enter into direct contact with the unconscious, strike the imagination, and trigger visceral reactions.

— Maurizio Cattelan

Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

— Diane Johnson

Laughter is the nourishment of our soul!

— Anonymous

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

— Ambrose Bierce

When the animal becomes human, the effect is pleasingly benign and we laugh outloud, "Okay come clean now. This isn't really about hunting, is…

— Simon Critchley

Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness.…

— David Simon

Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the…

— Steve Allen

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

— Thomas Carlyle