Quotes About Laughter

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger, you can't hold fear, you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

There is always something to chuckle about. Sometimes we see it. Sometimes . . . we don't. Still, the world is filled with humor. It is there when we are happy and it is there to cheer us up when we are not.

Blessed are the joymakers.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

It has always seemed to me that hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

A good belly laugh is like taking your liver for a horseback ride.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.

Shared laughter is love made audible.

A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .

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

Every time a man smiles, and much more when he laughs, it adds something to his fragment of life.

A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather . . . what comes after No man knows.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

A source of innocent merriment! Of innocent merriment.

Merry have we met, and merry have we been; Merry let us part, and merry meet again; With our merry sing-song, happy gay, and free, With a merry ding-dong, happy let us be!

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.