<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Laughter - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63837]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24221]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24204]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24206]]></link><description><![CDATA[no man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit ought to be a glorious treat, like caviar. Never spread it around like marmelade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24208]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, if thou art wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24211]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215]]></link><description><![CDATA[He laughs best who laughs last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24216]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218]]></link><description><![CDATA[A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219]]></link><description><![CDATA[One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24201]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is by definition healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24191]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24194]]></link><description><![CDATA[That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24196]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South,  And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet   By the curves of a perfect mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance.  Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest   Thy person share, and the conceit advance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179]]></link><description><![CDATA[And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres. [Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud  Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,  'Tis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,  'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24184]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24185]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24186</guid></item></channel></rss>