The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
– E E. Cummings
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
– Max Eastman
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humour in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
– Bill Cosby
There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it laughter.
– René Maheu
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
– Jack Handey
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
– Gordon W. Allport
He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. And that was all his patrimony.
– Rafael Sabatini
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
– Stephen King
I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.”
– Quincy Jones
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
– Bob Newhart
Laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
– Hugh Sidey
If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.
– Edgar Watson Howe
Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
– Josh Billings
And the self same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
– Kahlil Gibran
That is the best to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.
– Gloria Vanderbilt
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
– Bill Nye
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
– Abraham Lincoln
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
– Thomas Carlyle