Laughter Quotes and Sayings

Nobody ever died of laughter.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.


Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.

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

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Laughter means sympathy.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

A laugh is a smile that bursts.

A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

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

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.

Laughter is part of the human survival kit.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

He who laughs, lasts.

Seven days without laughter make one weak.

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

Laughter is a medicine with no side effects.

The best blush to use is laughter: It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

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

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.

You can’t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

I try to bring the audience’s own drama – tears and laughter they know about – to them.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.