Joseph Addison Quotes About Laughter

Quotes about: Laughter

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

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Positive, Happiness

• Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Men, Mirth

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

• Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Humor

• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Men

• The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Men, Littles

  Joseph Addison (1856). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd”, p.147

• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Soul, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.294

• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Laughter, Believe, Heart

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

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