- “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.” – 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.” – Unknown
- “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
- “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “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
- “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey
