This quote means that a laugh is an intense and unexpected expression of joy or happiness that is so strong that it bursts out in the kind of a smile. It is a physical indication of one's happiness that can not be contained.
This quote is written / told by Mary H. Waldrip between June 5, 1914 and November 2, 1988. She was a famous Editor from USA.
The author also have 3 other quotes.
"Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?"
"It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control"
"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile"
"I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face"
"Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile"
