Able Quote by 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

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

What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— Zero Mostel

Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at…

— Simon Critchley

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

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

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

— Alice Meynell

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

— Thomas Carlyle

Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh.

— Joan Rivers