Humor and Laughter Quotations

Your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter.  Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little century after century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast.  Against the assault of laughter, nothing can withstand.

--Mark Twin

Such a laugh was [like] money in a man’s pocket, because it cut down on the doctor’s bills like  

--Mark Twain

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.  There is no humor in heaven.

 --Mark Twain

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.

--Will Rogers

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane

--Robert Frost

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

--Kurt Vonnegut

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.                                        

 --Maya Angelou

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

--Charles Dickens                             

With mirth and humor let old age wrinkles com

--Williams Shakespeare

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.                     --John Steinbeck

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

--Charlie Chaplin