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

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

Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.
~Author Unknown

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
~Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts," Saturday Night Live

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

Laughter is an instant vacation.
~Milton Berle

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!
~Agnes Repplier

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
~Gordon W. Allport

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
~Victor Borge

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.
~Yiddish Proverb

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other.
~Alan Alda

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

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book.
~Irish Proverb

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

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
~Puzant Kevork Thomajan

There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.
~Françoise Sagan

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 is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.
~Henri Bergson

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

A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
~Raymond Hitchcock

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

Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.
~Anna Fellows Johnston

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4

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

A good time to laugh is any time you can.
~Linda Ellerbee

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

Watching a child's laughter teach a candle's flame how to dance.
~Dr. SunWolf

Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea.
~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods.
~Author unknown, from an editorial in New York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
~Ken Kesey

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips.
~Author Unknown

It was not a laugh but merely a loud smile.
~Author Unknown

Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
~Mort Walker

A laugh is a smile that bursts.
~Mary H. Waldrip

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
~Victor Hugo

[L]aughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
~Hugh Sidey

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.
~Josh Billings

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.
~Hugh Sidey

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
~Arnold Glasow

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.
~Author Unknown

We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
~Joseph Heller

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
~Friedrich Nietzsche