Laugh Often Quotes

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Life, Motivational

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Those who laugh often never grow old.

Benjamin Franklin

Laughing, Grows

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Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.

Harvey Mackay

Attitude, Laughter, Heart

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Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful, People, Giving

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Live well laugh often and love much.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

Love, Life, Laughing

Quoted in John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, 11th ed. (1937). Often said to be by Ralph Waldo Emerson and to be titled "Success." In fact, however, it was written in 1905 by Stanley and was the firstprize winner in a contest sponsored by the magazine Modern Women. Anthony W. Shipps wrote in Notes and Queries in 1976: "The versions printed in the two local newspapers in 1905 do not agree, and in the many later appearances in print which I have seen, the wording has varied somewhat. However, the

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Laugh loud, and laugh often. It’ll keep you happy, keep you healthy, and keep your attitude headed in a positive direction.

Mac Anderson

Attitude, Laughing, Healthy

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The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Life, Success

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Live well, learn plenty, laugh often, love much.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Future, Laughing, Live Well

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Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.

Chelsea Handler

Laughing, Important, Laugh At Yourself

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Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

George Carlin

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter, Enthusiasm, False Friends

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Love well, laugh often and live well for Christ.

Karen Kingsbury

Laughing, Christ, Live Well

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Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him

Karen Kingsbury

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!

John McLeod

Cheer, Laughter, Years

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Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

Max Beerbohm

Laughter, Believe, Grateful

Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.115, New York Review of Books

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I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher.

Dalai Lama

Country, Laughter, People

Dalai Lama, Sofia Stril-Rever (2010). “My Spiritual Journey”, p.23, Harper Collins

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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

Tamora Pierce

Jobs, Knights, People

Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.377, Random House Books for Young Readers

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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Laughter, Laughing, Fit

Arthur Conan Doyle (1993). “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, p.101, Wordsworth Editions

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To laugh often and much ... this is to have succeeded. Probably not from Emerson: here's the full quotation and the story.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughing, Stories, Transcendentalism

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