Humor And Laughter Quotes

• Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

  William James

  Funny, Dance, Laughter

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• A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Laughter, Twilight

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.64, BookBaby

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• There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Inspiring, Laughter

  Charles Dickens (2011). “A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Stories”, p.59, Penguin

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• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

  Victor Borge

  Laughter, Distance, Two

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• A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "How to be Lovely". Book by Melissa Hellstern, 2005.

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  I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Laughter, Caring

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Laugh...It's the sweetest thing one can do for oneself and one's fellow human beings.

  Maya Angelou

  Laughing, Sweetest, Humans

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

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• If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

  Martin Luther

  Laughter, Humor, Laughing

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• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Laughter, Creativity

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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  Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

  Langston Hughes

  Summer, Rain, Humor

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

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• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

  Francis Bacon

  Funny, Laughter, Humor

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• You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Relationship, Laughter

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• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Laughter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.

  Frank A. Clark

  Laughter, Life And Love, Humor

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• At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

  Jean Houston

  Positive, Happiness, Gratitude

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• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

  Christopher Morley

  Laughter, Humor, Two

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

  Ken Kesey

  Relationship, Happiness, Smile

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.36, Hamilton Books

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Blow, Worst Situation

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• Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Strength, Happiness

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• 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

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

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