Laughter Quotes
Laughter quotes contain a lot of fun information. Before you jump into our quotes, I invite you to repeat after me: “Ha Ha Ha, ha ha ha, ho, ho, ha, ha, haaaaa.” Now say it two times faster. Was that fun? I hope so.
Read more...Did you know laughter stimulates your immune system and feel good hormones in your brain? It’s a wonderful thing to laugh for no reason. Try it. Practice laughing out loud. If you need to read a laughter quote or two before you do that, go right ahead.Does it feel a bit crazy? Even if it does, I urge you to try it in the privacy of your home or while you are out walking your dog. Your animal friends will never judge you for laughing.
Intentional laughter is good exercise. It will get you smiling and maybe even singing. I personally start most days with a rousing rendition of “Oh What A Beautiful Morning…” Pick any song that lifts your spirits and sing it loud and proud.
Think people will laugh at you? That’s a good thing! What the world needs now is lots more mirth. Do your part and start a laughter evolution. After the laughter quotes, visit our smile quotes and funny quotes to keep the happy momentum going;)
Your silly, smiling sage and personal joy and inspiration coach,
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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
Edward Abbey
How to make God laugh: Tell him your future plans.
Woody Allen
I am thankful for laughter except when milk comes out my nose.
Woody Allen
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry, to get my work done, and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh - at yourself.
Ethel Barrymore
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Karl Barth
Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven; A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
Ecclesiastes 3:1,2,4
A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly, but a laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows and bubbles all around.
Carolyn Birmingham
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.
Jimmy Buffett
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron
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
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Andrew Carnegie
We have to laugh because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
Rosario Castellanos
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Carol Channing
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin
Laughter is the best creative medicine.
John Cleese
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
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
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e.e. cummings
The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life’s work.
Ellen DeGeneres
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker
The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
Wayne Dyer
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Thomas Alva Edison
To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil Gibran
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
Arnold H. Glasgow
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
Amy Grant
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you are laughing, when you are applauding, when you are joyous, when you are feeling that feeling of appreciation pulsing through you, in those times, there IS NO RESISTANCE within you. You are, in those moments, vibrationally up to speed with who you really are.
Abraham-Hicks
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston
If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
Ed Howe
Pain is deeper than all thought; laughter is higher than all pain.
Elbert Hubbard
Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
Jonathan Lochwood Huie
Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.
Anna Fellows Johnston
Your brain controls how you feel. It’s the biggest playground in the world. What we think and feel creates secretions from the brain which in turn cause biochemical changes throughout the body. When we laugh and play, our body releases endorphins, the body's natural opiates.
Ellie Katz
When we can laugh through our tears, we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad, but they cannot be all that bad.
Allen Klein
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
Koran
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
Kris Kristofferson
You cannot be mad at someone who makes you laugh – it’s as simple as that.
Jay Leno
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
It’s possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
Carolyn Llewellyn
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison S. Marden
Laughter is man’s most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humor, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element, belongs to man.
Margaret Mead
Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.
Golda Meir
Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.
L. M. Montgomery
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Poole
He who laughs, lasts.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be amused.
John Powell
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop laughing.
Michael Pritchard
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
Mary Anne Radmacher
May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.
Mary Anne Radmacher
We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.
Mary Anne Radmacher
It’s such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!
Gilda Radner
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
Agnes Repplier
Plant impossible gardens. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Take moon baths. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Entertain your inner child. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
SARK
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a good mood ever since.
Marilyn vos Savant
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss
I live by this credo: Have a little laugh and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough.
Red Skelton
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little children; has filled her niche and accomplished her task; has left the world better than she found it; has always looked for the best in others and given the best she had.
Bessie Anderson Stanley
Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.
Steel Magnolias
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
Cat Stevens
The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Robert Louis Stevenson
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The thing about creativity is - people are going to laugh at it. Get over it.
Twyla Tharp
If we can open your mind to laughter, we can slip in a little information.
Virginia Tooper
Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
We can laugh from either joy or happiness, but we weep only from grief or joy…Without the pain of farewell, there is no joy in reunion…without the pain of captivity, we don't experience the joy of freedom.
George Vallant
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Voltaire
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
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I’ve been in a generally good mood ever since.
Marilyn vos Savant
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