Samuel Johnson Quotes About Laughter

• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous".

• The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Laughter, Men

  "Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

• Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

  Samuel Johnson

  Dog, Laughter, Player

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 404 (1775)

• In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.

  Samuel Johnson

  Laughter, Laughing, Bed

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical”, p.610

• What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Laughter, Pardon, Said

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.208

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