Philosophy Quote by Lynne Withey

“Wise is the fool who becomes a master at laughter.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds…

— Hilaire Belloc

“The Olympian vice.--In defiance of that philosopher who as true Englishman tried to give any thinking person's laughter a bad reputation ('Laughter is a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He said that the only decent German philosopher was Lichtenberg, who was less a philosopher than the ultimate jokester and clown.”

— Roberto Bolaño

“I dearly love a laugh... I hope I never ridicule what is wise or good. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me,…

— Jane Austen

“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He who has learned how to laugh at himself shall never cease to be entertained.”

— John Powell

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with…

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Laughter is a divine gift to the human who is humble. A proud man cannot laugh because he must watch his dignity; he cannot…

— C.J. Mahaney

“Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to…

— Charles Dickens

“If you need philosophy and you're waiting on the gas chamber, stick to Socrates. At least he had a sense of humor.”

— Tyler Patrick Wood

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

— Jane Austen