Laughter Quotes

Most popular laughter quotes

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. - Charlie Chaplin quote.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde quote.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

friendship

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

personal

A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer. - Herman Melville quote.
A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer.
Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Earth laughs in flowers.

earth flowers

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. - Victor Borge quote.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole quote.
He who laughs, lasts.

humor

Laughter and smiles are essential factors in a joyous life. The dicty folks who walk around with the backs of their hands glued to their foreheads as an indication of their sober decorum and seriousness are missing the point. A smile is a welcoming expression that allows people to approach you more easily, and laughter chases the darkness away and allows sunlight to enter your heart. Liberate yourself; smile and laugh regularly and often. - Maya Angelou quote.
Laughter and smiles are essential factors in a joyous life. The dicty folks who walk around with the backs of their hands glued to their foreheads as an indication of their sober decorum and seriousness are missing the point. A smile is a welcoming expression that allows people to approach you more easily, and laughter chases the darkness away and allows sunlight to enter your heart. Liberate yourself; smile and laugh regularly and often.

smile

The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. - Henri Bergson quote.
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

vanity

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
— Japanese proverb

proverbs Japanese proverbs

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo quote.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. - Arnold H. Glasow quote.
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

humor

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart. - Mort Walker quote.
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.
Laughter can be heard farther than weeping.
— Jewish proverb

proverbs Jewish proverbs

Laughter translates into any language.
— Graffiti
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. - Gordon Allport quote.
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

hopelessness

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. - Joseph Heller quote.
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. - William Rotsler quote.
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. - Norman Cousins quote.
It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. - J. M. Barrie quote.
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

babies

No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy. - Bernard Williams quote.
No symphony orchestra ever played music like a two-year-old girl laughing with a puppy.

babies dogs

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. - Max Eastman quote.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

dogs

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

humor character

Laughter is America's most important export. - Walt Disney quote.
Laughter is America's most important export.

America

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. - Virginia Woolf quote.
The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

the world beauty

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. - Richard Feynman quote.
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard Feynman “What Do You Care What Other People Think”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character

understanding compassion

She had a penetrating sort of laugh.  Rather like a train going into a tunnel. - P. G. Wodehouse quote.
She had a penetrating sort of laugh.  Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. - Milan Kundera quote.
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

happiness

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. - Francois Sagan quote.
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

jealousy

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.  And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.  And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

joy suffering

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison quote.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others. - Steve Allen quote.
Without laughter life on our planet would be intolerable. So important is laughter to us that humanity highly rewards members of one of the most unusual professions on earth, those who make a living by inducing laughter in others.
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.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. - Karl Barth quote.
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle quote.
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Pyrotechnically considered, it is the fire-works of the soul. - Josh Billings quote.
Pyrotechnically considered, it is the fire-works of the soul.
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. - Phyllis Bottome quote.
Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it. - Lenny Bruce quote.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.
How much lies in laughter: the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man! - Thomas Carlyle quote.
How much lies in laughter: the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man!
We have to laugh.  Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Nicolas Chamfort quote.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Laughter has something in it in common with the ancient winds of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes men forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves; something . . . that they cannot resist. - G. K. Chesterton quote.
Laughter has something in it in common with the ancient winds of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes men forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves; something . . . that they cannot resist.
Laughter is a force for democracy. - John Cleese quote.
Laughter is a force for democracy.
Laughter is the best medicine.  But it's more than that.  It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.  Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream. - Stephen Colbert quote.
Laughter is the best medicine.  But it's more than that.  It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids.  Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche, and then applies an antibiotic cream.
You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything.  If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid. - Stephen Colbert quote.
You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything.  If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.
Laughter is a form of internal jogging.  It moves your internal organs around.  It enhances respiration.  It is an igniter of great expectations.
Norman Cousins Head First: The Biology of Hope and the Healing Power of the Human Spirit
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitchings of a mean merrymaker.
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quote.
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all.

tears

Laughter is the sun which drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo quote.
Laughter is the sun which drives winter from the human face.
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life.  It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King quote.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of reason with unreason.
What is released in the explosion of laughter is a deep contradictory thing that is both joy and pain, mischief and madness, pleasure and panic.
John Lahr Dame Edna Everage and the Rise of Western Civilization: Backstage with Barry Humphries
Laughter is carbonated holiness. - Anne Lamott quote.
Laughter is carbonated holiness.
Laughter is the mind sneezing.
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady. - Mary McCarthy quote.
Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady.

self-pity

Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humor, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element, belongs to man. - Margaret Mead quote.
Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humor, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element, belongs to man.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes. - Lucy Maud Montgomery quote.
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
Laughter is part of the human survival kit, a sticking-plaster on the wounds of existence.
Humor is a prelude to faith and
Laughter is the beginning of prayer. - Reinhold Niebuhr quote.
Humor is a prelude to faith and
Laughter is the beginning of prayer.
A laugh is a terrible weapon.
Laughter is wine for the soul—laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. - Seán O'Casey quote.
Laughter is wine for the soul—laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness.
He who laughs, lasts!
Laughter is God's hand on a troubled world.

proverbs

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 quote.
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!
Laughter may be the only free emotion—the only emotion that can't be compelled. - Gloria Steinem quote.
Laughter may be the only free emotion—the only emotion that can't be compelled.
The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.  Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.

the world

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain quote.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. - Peter Ustinov quote.
Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. - Peter Ustinov quote.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. - Mort Walker quote.
Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing. - Laura Ingalls Wilder quote.
A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House in the Ozarks: A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler: The Rediscovered Writings
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. - Thomas Hobbes quote.
Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
There are three things which are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.