Quotes About Laughter

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.  ~ Woody Allen


Laughter is an instant vacation.  ~ Milton Berle


Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.  ~ Margaret Sackville


Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.  ~ Phyllis Bottome


Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.  ~ Victor Borge


The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.  ~ Richard P. Feynman


Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.  ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.  ~ Robert Frost


We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.  ~ Agnes Repplier


Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh.  ~ W.H. Auden


You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all.  ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers


Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.  ~ Erma Bombeck


Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.  ~ Seán O'Casey


You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.  ~ Stephen King


There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.  ~ Erma Bombeck


I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.  ~ Khalil Gibran


With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.  ~ Abraham Lincoln


Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.  ~ Josh Billings


A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.  ~ Barbara Walters


Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.  ~ Ambrose Bierce


Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.  ~ Gordon B. Hinckley


Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.  ~ Mark Twain


Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.  ~ Ellie Katz


It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.


You have as much laughter as you have faith.  ~ Martin Luther


In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.  ~ Gordon B. Hinckley


The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.  ~ E.E. Cummings


The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.  ~ Mark Twain


I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.  ~ Art Buchwald


Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.  ~ Mark Twain


Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.  ~ Lyn Karol


Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.  ~ Lord Byron


I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.  ~ Robert A. Heinlein


There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.  ~ Brian Andreas


In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.  ~ Khalil Gibran


You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.  ~ Bill Cosby


To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.  ~ Charles Chaplin


While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.  ~ Lewis Carroll


One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.  ~ Osho


Laughter is the language of the soul.  ~ Pablo Neruda


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 ought to be.  ~ William Hazlitt


If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.  ~ Clarence Darrow


I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.  ~ Maya Angelou


Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.  ~ Kurt Vonnegut


Humor is an antidote to isolation.  ~ Elizabeth Janeway


Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.  ~ George R. Gissing


What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?  ~ Søren Kierkegaard


Earth laughs in flowers.  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


A day without laughter is a day wasted.  ~ Charlie Chaplin


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