Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
—Joseph Addison
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
—Lord Byron
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
—Mark Twain
He who laughs, lasts!
—Mary Pettibone Poole
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
—Michael Pritchard
Laughter is inner jogging.
—Norman Cousins
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
—Stephen King
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
—The Talmud
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
—W. H. Auden
Earth laughs in flowers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is full of so much that you refuse to let yourself experience. The blanketing comfort of love, the fulfillment of contagious laughter, the peace of finding true joy, the butterflies of uncontainable excitement…these are all things that make up life. They should never be taken for granted.
—L.B. Simmons in The Resurrection of Aubrey Miller
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
—Thomas Szasz
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
—Milan Kundera
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
—Nicolas Chamfort
I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.
—Shannon Hale in The Goose Girl