Humor Quote by Joseph Addison

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of…

— Joseph Addison

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

— Joseph Addison

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

— Sir Fulke Greville

I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the…

— Anonymous

Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of…

— Anonymous

Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

— James Clavell

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living…

— Margaret Mead

Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature.

— Simon Critchley

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

We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between…

— Robert Fulghum

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things…

— William Hazlitt