Quotes on Laughter

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others - the religious man laughs at himself, or at the whole ridiculousness of man's being. Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.

If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.