Laughing Quotes

He who laughs, lasts.

Mary Pettibone Poole

Laughter heals all wounds.

Kevin Hart

When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.

William Blake

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Red Skelton

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Thackeray

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Madeleine L’Engle

Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter for the moment. Cheerfulness keeps up daylight in the mind, filling it with steady and perpetual serenity.

Samuel Johnson

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

Abraham Lincoln

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

Herman Melville

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows, and bubbles all around.

Carolyn Birmingham

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

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

As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul.

Jewish Proverb

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

Jean Houston

Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Shakespeare

Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

Sebastien Roch

Remember this: very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Victor Hugo

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr Seuss

All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.

Proverbs 15:15

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Mark Twain

You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

Reginald Heber

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

Mark Twain

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e Cummings

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man’s pocket, because it cut down the doctor’s bills like everything.

Mark Twain

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Bennett Cerf

The size of a man’s understanding can be justly measured by his mirth.

Samuel Johnson

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

Benjamin Franklin

True humor springs more from the heart than from the head; it is not contempt, its essence is love.

Thomas Carlyle

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 8:15

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

Viktor Frankl

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bulletproof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

Norman Cousins

I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another’s load this day as I fare along.

Mary S Edgar

If laughter cannot solve your problems, it will definitely dissolve your problems; so that you can think clearly what to do about them.

Madan Kataria

If you don’t laugh, you cry.

Laughter is the most reliable gauge of human nature.

Dostoyevsky

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

Benjamin Franklin

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 sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

Zero Mostel

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Henri Bergson

Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation.

St Francis de Sales

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Proverbs 17:22