Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. - Thomas Carlyle Laughter is the antidote to existential pain - S Spencer Baker Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. - Henri Barbusse A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge. - Dave Barry Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. - Karl Barth Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. - Henry Ward Beecher Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. - Henry Ward Beecher What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adol...