Pastoral Resources

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

It seems that laughter needs an echo.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.