Quote by Stephen Leacock

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who…

— Stephen Leacock

The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy,…

— Galileo Galilei

But the LORD laughs at the wicked, for He knows their day is coming.

— Rhea May

“But the truth of his teaching would seem to be this: in our own person and fortune, we should be ready to accept and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“May God grant us the grace to laugh at ourselves.”

— Ray Blackston

Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to…

— Samuel Johnson

“Laughter can be a form of forgiveness—a gift, cathartic.”

— Briar Kit Esme

But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; / And shall begin to smite his fellowservants,…

— Bible

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

“He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings; He was a Saviour Who…

— Fulton J. Sheen