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

Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine

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

The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

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

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
Bill Nye

An optimist laughs to forget, a pessimist forgets to laugh.

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.
Fran�oise Sagan

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e.e. cummings

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette

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

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing

She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.
The Click Five

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

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
Jimmy Buffett

If every word I said could make you laugh, I’d talk forever…

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

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell

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

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

You laugh at me because I am different, but I laugh at you because you are all the same.

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

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

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

That is the best – to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt

Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Laughter and orgasm are great bedfellows.
John Callahan

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

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

You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.
Jay Leno

Laughter is the spark of the soul.

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

I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Cat Stevens

Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life.

If I ever stop laughing, I’m dead.
Tom Knapp

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire

If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Edward W. Howe

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
John Masefield

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joseph Addison

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

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Koran

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
Sebastian R. N. Chamfort

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered – and I still do – which is more important.
Hermione Gingold

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

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

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

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Jack Handey

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

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge – myth is more potent than history – dreams are more powerful than facts – hope always triumphs over experience – laughter is the cure for grief – love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
Anon

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
Hugh Sidey

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

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

Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.
Kat Likkel and John Hoberg

Laugh often,
Dream big,
Reach for the stars!

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.

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
Mort Walker

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

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

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

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold Glasow

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

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

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