Degrees Quote by George Meredith

Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

— Michel de Montaigne

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us…

— Dennis Miller

Once you learn how to make people laugh, then you get to choose exactly how you want to make them laugh.

— John Oliver

Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

— Zero Mostel

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

— Max Eastman

As a general rule, the freedom of any people can be judged by the volume of their laughter.

— Anonymous

Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech

— Mahatma Gandhi

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

— Joseph Addison

What people will - or will not - laugh at is mainly determined by their social conditioning.

— Steve Allen

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

To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self-absorbed and serious when…

— Sonia Choquette