Laughter Quotes

Laughter -- an interior convulsion, producing a
distortion of the features and accompanied by
inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though
intermittent, incurable....Ambrose Bierce.

The earth laughs in flowers....e.e. cummings.

Always laugh when you can.
It is cheap medicine....Lord Byron.

Laughter is the best form of medicine.
For when we laugh, we neither think,
grieve, or feel....Eugene Lam.

Laughter is higher than all pain....Elbert Hubbard.

Laughter is the most healthful
exertion....Christoph Wilhelm Huefland.

Against the assault of laughter
nothing can stand....Mark Twain.

People who laugh actually live longer than
those who don't laugh. Few persons realize
that health actually varies according to
the amount of laughter....Dr. James Walsh.

Life can be wildly tragic at times,
and I've had my share. But whatever
happens to you, you have to keep a
slightly comic attitude. In the final
analysis, you have got not to forget
to laugh....Katherine Houghton Hepburn.

There is a form of laughter that springs from
the heart, heard every day in the merry voice
of childhood, the expression of a laughter --
loving spirit that defies analysis by the
philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical
in it, and totally without social significance.
Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man.
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is
the music of life....Sir William Osler.

Nobody ever died of
laughter....Max Beerbohm.

What was significant about the laughter...
was not just the fact that it provides
internal exercise for a person...a form of
jogging for the innards, but that it creates
a mood in which the other positive emotions
can be put to work, too....Norman Cousins.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away
the cobwebs of the heart....Mort Walker.

Earth laughs in flowers....Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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