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

Yiddish proverb

To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.

Frank Tyger

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join.

Agnes Repplier

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

Bob Newhart

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.

Norman Cousins

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

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

Shirley MacLaine

Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm De Chazal

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

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

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

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

F. Sagan

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

Tom Mullen

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Charlie Chaplin

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Marlene Dietrich

Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.

Sir John Powell

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

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.

Sean O'Casey

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

John Cleese

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan

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

Stephen King

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

And it's whispered that soon if we all call a tune, then the Piper will lead us to reason. And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter. Does anybody remember laughter?

Led Zeppelin

Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.

John Osborne

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

Joseph Addison

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Mark Twain

Shared laughter is erotic too.

Marge Piercy

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E e cummings

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

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Alan Alda

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Max Eastman

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

Oscar Wilde

Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.

Irish Proverb

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Henri Bergson

If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Victor Borge

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein

Through laughter, a lot of the time you can defuse the tension that would usually be there.

Michael Hunter

Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

Mel Gussow

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Cicero

Grant us laughter, ... and grant us a time to enjoy each other.

Bayard Taylor

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

F. Sagan

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television-the ability to heal through laughter.

Soleil Moon Frye

I thought it was really fun to laugh about it - it kind of just melted away remaining feelings in laughter. It gave us a little closure.

Teresa Garland

I love my work and enjoy making children laugh. Laughter cannot be imitated. It comes from the heart.

Bob Bell

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. . . . I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

Mary Pickford

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Mort Walker

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Andrew Carnegie

It's totally changing your body chemistry. It's a very healthy thing to do. It is said that 15 minutes of laughter is worth six hours of meditation.

Jan Karon

We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

Ringo Starr

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

David Walliams

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

John Betjeman

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacrifice, but there are in every generation those who make it with joy and laughter and these are the salt of the generations.

Patrick Henry Pearse

Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

Maya Angelou

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

Robert Plant

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

Jean Houston

There was a lot of tears and a lot of laughter. It was heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Gary Santimyer

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

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

Margaret Sackville

There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding.

William Mcilvanney

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Sean Connery

The tipping point in Washington is when you go from being a subject of caricature to the subject of laughter. She's in danger of becoming the subject of laughter.

Bruce Fein

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

He gave us the gift of love and laughter, ... even in his passing.

Bob Denver

Simulating laughter stimulates genuine laughter. The body doesn't know the difference.

Mary Mullen

Bob is TV history. He will be missed by so many friends for his life and talent. The fun, the laughter and joy will continue forever.

Tina Louise

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

Kurt Vonnegut

The laughter and joy of puppies helped.

Helen Gibson

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin

Jason, laughter, he's our biggest one, and he's a little more demanding than the rest.

Malessa Wing

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

Victor Hugo

We want to hear laughter because that's the kind of man he was.

Mike Rose

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Julie Foudy

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

It was actually kind of funny when we were doing the nude scenes, we were in fits of laughter.

Peter Phelps

We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

John Agyekum Kufuor

We also hope that a new type of industry will be created by linking the two different fields -- laughter and medical treatment.

Hikaru Horiguchi

My wife (Jenny) gets mad at me sometimes because I'm always cracking jokes, ... Sometimes I don't take things too seriously. But laughter is the best medicine. If you're laughing, life is better.

Ryan Dempster

We'll give them a hand up, not a hand down. We're teaching them to take care of themselves. I like to see them laugh, because laughter is good. I like to let them know someone cares.

Kathryne Boroughs

That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

Quintilian

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Linda Ellerbee

It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people.

Robert Schimmel

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Alice Meynell

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Milton Berle

Happiness, laughter and joy abound,when friends, family, and lovers are around.

Amy Davis

In the funeral home, I never heard laughter like that in my life. The audience was laughing on the screen, and we were laughing in the home.

Carl Reiner

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Will Durst

Even when faced with his own death, he initiated the 'laughter is the best medicine' theory.

Kathie Pontus

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. (Laughter.) My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials.

Barry Mccaffrey

Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.

John Gould

Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.

Eileen Caddy

She wasn't always the politician. She made everything fun by filling the house with laughter.

Leann Arganbright

Starved ... laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that humor is a tremendously, tremendously important antidote to recovery.

Eric Schaeffer

Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

Edmond de Goncourt