Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Laughter
Laughter rich as woodland thunder.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power: that is all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Laughter like a chime of bells.
—Charles Reade
Soft laughter as of light that stirs the sea
With darkling sense of dawn ere dawn may be.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Laughter soft as tears.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.
—Old Testament
Sweet laughter in mirthfulness artlessly flowing
Like zephyrs at play through a fairy flute blowing.
—Ralph D. Williams