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
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
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
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
Grant us laughter, ... and grant us a time to enjoy each other.
Bayard Taylor
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
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
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
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
It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.
Julie Foudy
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
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
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