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Laughter Quotes
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Agnes Repplier (1855 - 1950), Americans and Others, 1912
Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. Anna Fellows Johnston
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and it won't even lend you a handkerchief. Anne Durrum Robinson, Chairwoman of the Bored
Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit. Anonymous Author
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. Anonymous Author - Editorial in New York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren
It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile. Anonymous Author
Nobody ever died of laughter. Max Beerbohm
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. Anthony Burgess
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. Arnold Glasow
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes. Bob Edwards
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. Bob Newhart
Total absence of humor renders life impossible. Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952
Laughter is by definition healthy. Doris Lessing
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh. Françoise Sagan
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Friedrich Nietzsche
Life does not cease to be funny when people die anymore than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either. Golda Meir
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. Gloria Vanderbilt
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. Henri Bergson
Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are. Henry Van Dyke
Laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. Hugh Sidey
Carry laughter with you wherever you go. Hugh Sidey
A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. Irish Proverb
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods. Japanese Proverb
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that. Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. Jean Houston
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane. Jimmy Buffett
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last. John Masefield (1878 - 1967), "Window in Bye Street", 1912
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. John Powell
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. Joseph Heller
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Josh Billings
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. Kahlil Gibran
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immence importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. Katherine Mansfield
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. Ken Kesey
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. Koran
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
One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you. Larry Gelbart
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at. Lyn Karol
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A laugh is a smile that bursts. Mary H. Waldrip
He who laughs, lasts! Mary Pettibone Poole
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
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. Michael Pritchard
Laughter is an instant vacation. Milton Berle
Seven days without laughter makes one weak. Mort Walker
The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. Nicolas de Chamfort
Laughter is inner jogging. Norman Cousins (1912 - 1990)
"You hear that boy laughing? You think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all." Oliver Wendell Holmes
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world. Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. Puzant Kevork Thomajan
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh. Raymond Hitchcock
I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth." Quincy Jones
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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"
Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free. Ted Loder
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. The Talmud
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. Victor Borge (1909 - 2000)
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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 (1907 - 1973)
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. Woody Allen
What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Yiddish Proverb
Quotes
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. Groucho Marx