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 2. A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

 3. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear of him that hears it, Never in the tongue of him that makes it.

 4. A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

 5. A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

 6. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

 7. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

 8. An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.

 9. Be merry if you are wise.

10. Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

11. Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

12. Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of mirth is heaviness.

13. Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

14. For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughed at, than that which he approves and than that which he approves and reveres.

15. Frame thy mind to mirth and merriment, which bars a thousand harms, and lengthens life.

16. Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

17. Good humour is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

18. Honest good humour is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small, and the laughter abundant.

19. How much lies in laughter: the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man!

20. Humour - Its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

21. Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

22. Humour is wit and love.

23. Humour is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

24. Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

25. I have observed, that in comedy, the best actor plays the part of the droll, while some scrub rogue is made the hero, or fine gentleman. So, in this farce of life, wise men pass their time in mirth, whilst fools only are serious.

26. If you want to make people weep, you must weep yourself. If you want to make people laugh, your face must remain serious.

27. In a natural state, tears and laughter go hand in hand; for they are twin-born. Like two children sleeping in one cradle, when one wakes and stirs, the other wakes also.

28. Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.

29. It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

30. It is a great loss to a man when he cannot smile and laugh. Laughing is the best tonic to keep one healthy.

31. It was the saying of an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour.

32. Jesters do often prove prophets.

33. Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

34. Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

35. Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Less at thine own things: lest in the jest Thy person share, and thy conceit advance.

36. Laughter has its source in some kind of meanness or deformity.

37. Laughter is an internal convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises.

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

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

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

41. Laughter is the hiccup of a fool.

42. Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally on one spot.

43. Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. We always have plenty of this poison in us. Laughter is the antidote. But this antidote is necessary only so long as we are unable to use all the energy for useful work.

44. Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter; Sermons and soda-water the day after.

45. Life does not cease to be funny when people die, any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

46. Madness, we fancy, gave an ill-timed birth To a grinning laughter and to frantic mirth.

47. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.

48. Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

49. Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

50. Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.

51. My mirth can laugh and talk, but cannot sing: My grief finds harmonies in everything.

52. No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably depraved.

53. No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.

54. No, you never get any fun Out of the things you haven't done.

55. Old Times have bequeathed us a precept: To be merry and wise, but who has been able to observe it?

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

57. Smiles form the channel of a future tear.

58. Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good humour, which is no more a virtue than drunkenness.

59. Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile; they merely grin.

60. That older and greater church to which I belong; the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice, and affirm good fellowship without mawkishness.

61. The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.

62. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

63. The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

64. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.

65. The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

66. The secret source of Humour itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

67. The smile that flickers on baby's lips when he sleeps-does anybody know where it was borne? Yes, there is a rumour that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.

68. The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

69. The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

70. Thou canst not joke an enemy into a friend, but thou may'st a friend into an enemy.

71. To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

72. To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

73. Unseasonable mirth always turns to sorrow.

74. What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. They are but trifles, to be sure, but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

75. When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

76. Whenever you find Humour, you find Pathos close by its side.