"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
laughter quotes
"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
laughter quotes
"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
laughter quotes
"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