Laughter Quotes

Dr. Purushothaman
July 18, 2014
  • I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
    Woody Allen
  • 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
  • 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
  • You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
    Stephen King
  • 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

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