Laughter Quotes & Quotations

These laughter quotes are very inspirational and remind me how important it is to laugh at least once a day. Not just a chuckle but a real belly laugh that comes from the soul. I always feel so amazingly vibrant when I've had a real good laugh either on my own or with someone else. Maybe the quote should be, "A laugh a day keeps the doctor away."

"A man isn't poor if he can still laugh."

Raymond Hitchcock

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

Bob Newhart

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

Yiddish Proverb

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

e.e. cummings

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

Jean Houston

"Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life."

Og Mandino

"Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods."

Japanese Proverb

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."

Arnold Glasow

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."

Orison Swett Marden

"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself."

Ethel Barrymore

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"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."

Agnes Repplier

"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."

Koran

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."

Michael Pritchard

"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

"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

"Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward."

Carol Channing

"I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can."

Linda Ellerbee

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

Francoise Sagan

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"Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometimes, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight."

Barbara Schapiro

"Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations."

Red Skelton

"I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going."

Jim Valvano

"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."

August Wilson

"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart."

Mort Walker