Laughter Quotes

"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen

"We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can."

"A clown is like an aspirin, only he works twice as fast."

"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."

Bob Hope

"I'm happy that I have brought laughter, because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives in so many ways."

Lucille Ball

"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

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever."

"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart."

Mort Walker

"The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused."

Shirley MacLaine

"Laughter is poison to fear."

George R. R. Martin

"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

Charlie Chaplin

"He who laughs, lasts."

Mary Pettibone Poole

"Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living."

Seán O'Casey

"Mirth is God's medicine."

Henry Ward Beecher

“Laughter is America's most important export.”

“If heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing.”

“My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life.”

“My father used to call me the laughing hyena.”

“We should all laugh more at our elected officials. It's good for us and good for them.”

“There is no bad time to laugh. I always joke, even five minutes before a game. It's not bad to stay a little immature.”

“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.”

“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.”

“He who laughs best today will also laugh last.”

“I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career, anything for a laugh.”