Humor And Laughter Quotes

• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Inspiring, Laughter

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

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• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

  Victor Borge

  Laughter, Distance, Two

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• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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• Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Sweetest, Humans

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  Max Eastman

  Laughter, Pain, Humor

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "How to be Lovely". Book by Melissa Hellstern, 2005.

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• A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Good Morning, Happiness

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Blow, Worst Situation

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• 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

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

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• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

  Christopher Morley

  Laughter, Humor, Two

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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

  Ken Kesey

  Relationship, Happiness, Smile

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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

  Jean Houston

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Humor, Common Sense

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

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Thankful

  "Positive Words, Powerful Results". Book by Hal Urban (p. 105), 2004.

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• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Laughter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Laughter, Life And Love, Humor

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

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Relationship, Laughter

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• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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