Books Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

“Researchers believe laughter may in fact be a release valve when we experience the discomfort and excitement of uncertainty, but without fear of harm.”

— Nir Eyal

“A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do…

— G.K. Chesterton

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The…

— Lewis Carroll

“What we do and what we take seriously can often be so far removed from what it is actually all about that it is…

— Richard Templar

There is laughter that goes so far as to lose all touch with its motive, and to exist only, grossly, in itself. This is…

— Max Beerbohm

Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them?…

— Mark Twain

“Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. -Proverb”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“I believe that the ability to laugh at oneself is fundamental to the resiliency of the human spirit.”

— Jill Conner Browne

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

— Mary Engelbreit

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

— Shirley MacLaine

“The entity should attempt, - seriously, prayerfully, spiritually, - to see even that as might be called the ridiculous side of every question, -…

— Edgar Cayce