"Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks." Henri Bergson

"Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it." Mark Twain

"The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think." Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)

"There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face." Eva Hoffman

"The more one worries, the older one gets. The more one laughs, the younger one feels." Chinese Proverbs

"A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not." Talmud

"You know you've got the greatest friends when the only time they make you cry is when you're laughing too hard." Unknown

"A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy." Paramhansa Yogananda

"My sense of balance depends on my sense of humor." Joan Malerba-Foran

"The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease." Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

"Paradox is an idea making fun of itself." Earon Davis

"Laugh as much as you choose,
 but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
 Jane Austen

"Three things are needed for success: a backbone, a wishbone, and a funny bone." Reba McEntire

"A single smile is a cure for anything. It penetrates the human heart causing it to beat faster. A single smile means warmth, satisfaction, happiness, and most of all it means life. People smiling know and understand they have something worth living for." Andriana Kelisakieva

"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter." Beverly Sills

"Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything." Kurt Vonnegut

"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful." Unknown

"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter." Gordon W. Allport

"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. " Abraham Lincoln

"I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'" Quincy Jones




"When people are laughing, they're generally not killing each other. " Alan Alda

"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief." William Shakespeare, Othello

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." William Arthur Ward

"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society." William Makepeace Thackeray

"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species." Thomas Carlyle

"When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky." Buddha

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too." Samuel Butler

"Joy is the feeling of grinning inside." Melba Colgrove

"For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money." Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)

"It has to be fun. Whimsy and wonder are important. Keeping things light makes it easier for people to look at them." Heather Kent

"Laughter is carbonated holiness." Anne Lamott

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." Ben Williams

"There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all." :-)

"There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. " George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

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

"People will pay more to be entertained than educated." Johnny Carson

"Humor is the affectionate communication of insight." Leo Rosten

"Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling." Carlos Santana

"We don't laugh because we're happy, we're happy because we laugh." William James

"If the essence of my being has caused a smile to have appeared upon your face or a touch of joy within your heart.Then in living - I have made my mark." Thomas L. Odem, Jr

"Laughter is an instant vacation." Milton Berle

"If you didn’t start the day with a smile, it’s not too late to start practicing for tomorrow." Unknown

“What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously.” William K. Zinsser

“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.” Frank A. Clark, writer (1911- )

“Either a soul is cheerful by nature, or is made cheerful by work, love, art and knowledge.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“Carry laughter with you everywhere you go.” Hugh Sidney

“How do you get through life not being funny?” Mike Meyer’s dad

“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.” Romain Gary (1914-1980) French novelist

“Take time to laugh. It is the music of the soul.” from an old Irish prayer

“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.” Ethel Barrymore

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” Dr. Seuss

“We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.” Agnes Repplier Americans and Others, 1912

“You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature.” William Rotsler

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.” Dr. Seuss

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

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

“Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?” Anonymous

“Humor opposes directly those emotions which have been specifically recorded as being associated with precipitation of heart attack. These emotions are fear and rage. Humor acts to relieve hear. Rage is impossible when mirth prevails.” Dr. William F. Fry, Jr.

“Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.” Nietzsche

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road.” Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)