Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

Stella & Blake

Sharing laughter heals hearts

Patsy Clairmont

Earth laughs in flowers

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

Benjamin Franklin

When you laugh, you get a glimpse of God.

Merrily Belgum

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

Herman Melville

Laughter lets me relax. It’s the equivalent of taking a deep breath, letting it out and saying, ‘This, too, will pass’.

Odette Pollar

It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.

St. Thomas Aquinas

A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows, and bubbles all around.

Carolyn Birmingham

Laughter is an instant vacation

Milton Berle

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh – it’s as simple as that!

Jay Leno

A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh

Raymond Hitchcock

Start your day with a healthy laughter

Earl Nightingale

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bulletproof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

Norman Cousins

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

Laughter connects you with people. It’s almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you’re just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

John Cleese

Laughter opens the lungs, and opening the lungs ventilates the spirit.

Unknown

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Thackeray

Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Norman Cousins

Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing

Jarod Kintz