Quotations about Laughter

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


At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston


Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. ~Author Unknown


Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis. ~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live


The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. ~Nicolas Chamfort, translated from French


Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle


What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier


So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~Gordon W. Allport


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


What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb


When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. ~Alan Alda


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


A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb


Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. ~Bob Newhart


A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. ~Puzant Kevork Thomajan


There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. ~Françoise Sagan


I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." ~Quincy Jones


Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ~Henri Bergson


Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ~Max Eastman


A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. ~Raymond Hitchcock


Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. ~Kurt Vonnegut


Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. ~Anna Fellows Johnston


No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4


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


A good time to laugh is any time you can. ~Linda Ellerbee


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


Watching a child's laughter teach a candle's flame how to dance. ~Dr. SunWolf


Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006


A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ~Author unknown, from an editorial in New York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren


Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. ~Ken Kesey


It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. ~Author Unknown


It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile. ~Author Unknown


Seven days without laughter makes one weak. ~Mort Walker


A laugh is a smile that bursts. ~Mary H. Waldrip


Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~Victor Hugo


[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey


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


Carry laughter with you wherever you go. ~Hugh Sidey


Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. ~Arnold Glasow


Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. ~Author Unknown


We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. ~Joseph Heller


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