“If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” ~ Robert Frost

“The earth laughs in flowers.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning to do afterward.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut

“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.” ~ Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche

“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

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”  ~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“With mirth and laughter, let old wrinkles come.” ~ William Shakespeare

“Life is worth living as long as there’s a laugh in it.” ~ L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.” ~ Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” ~ Mark Twain

“Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire.” ~ Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.” ~ Erma Bombeck

“Laughter is poison to fear.” ~ George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“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

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.” ~ Herman Melvile, Moby-Dick

“It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.” ~ John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t laugh.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.” ~ Anne Lamott

“Laughter is America’s most important export.” ~ Walt Disney Company

“You have as much laughter as you have faith.” ~ Martin Luther

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” ~ Victor Borge

“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.”   ~ Golda Meir