A tear today is an investment in a laugh tomorrow.
– Jack Hyles
Laughter
Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity.
– Chuck Swindoll
Laughter | Beauty
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.
– Martin Luther
Heaven | Laughter
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
– Karl Barth
Grace | Laughter
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called “The rejoicing of hope.”
– William Gurnall
Hope | Joy | Laughter
Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.
– Clovis G. Chappell
Laughter | Life
Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one.
– Frederick Buechner
Laughter
Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
– A. W. Tozer
Life | Laughter | Work
Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.
– Jack Hyles
Laughter
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
– Francis Bacon
Friendship | Laughter
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Happiness | Laughter
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
Character | Laughter
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Friendship | Laughter
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
– G.K. Chesterton
Life | Laughter
Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship | Laughter
You cannot study pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.
– C.S. Lewis
Philosophy | Laughter
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Children | Hatred | Laughter
Laughing, if loud, ends in a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty on the face.
– Jeremy Taylor
Hypocrisy | Beauty | Laughter
Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow. A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music.
– Owen Feltham
Character | Laughter
Of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.
– C.S. Lewis
Sin | Rebellion | Laughter
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship | Laughter