The Best Quotes on Laughter

Have you laughed yet today? You need to laugh! Here are some of the best quotes on laughter, from famous people who really understood the value of laughter...

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
--Agnes Repplier

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

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

Laughter is by definition healthy.
--Doris Lessing

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
--Elsa Maxwell

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

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
--Jay Leno

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
--Jimmy Buffett

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
--Peter Ustinov

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
--Joseph Addison

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
--Larry Gelbart

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
--Lord Byron

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
--Koran

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
--John Masefield

He who laughs, lasts!
--Mary Pettibone Poole

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
--Michael Pritchard

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
--Victor Borge

Laughter is inner jogging.
--Norman Cousins

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
--Stephen King

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
--The Talmud

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

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
--e e cummings

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