50 Inspirational Laughter Quotes to Brighten Your Day

"A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have."

- Roger Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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

- E. E. Cummings

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."

- Victor Borge

"The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter."

- Mark Twain

"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Laughter is God's blessing."

- Joseph Prince

"I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable."

- Viktor Frankl

"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

"Laughter is an instant vacation."

- Milton Berle

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."

- Victor Borge

"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Continue to learn. Play with abandon. Choose with no regret. Laugh! Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is."

- Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."

- William Shakespeare

"We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we are happy because we laugh."

- William James

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

- Mark Twain

"Isaac Asimov: “You’ve got to learn to laugh at yourself. If you don’t, someone else will do it for you, and you won’t enjoy it nearly as much.”"

- Isaac Asimov

"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

- Hilaire Belloc

"Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."

- Joan Lunden

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade, and try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."

- Ron White

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."

- Oscar Wilde

"Let there be more joy and laughter in your living."

- Eileen Caddy

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."

- Erma Bombeck

"Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow anyone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then, by all means, follow that path."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone."

- Reba McEntire

"I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit."

- Bill Hicks

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

- Gordon W. Allport

"Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale."

- Will Durst

"There is little success where there is little laughter."

- Andrew Carnegie

"May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise."

- Rumi

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

- Robert Fulghum

"If love is the treasure, laughter is the key."

- Yakov Smirnoff

"If Heaven exists, to know that there's laughter, that would be a great thing."

- Robin Williams

"To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter."

- P. T. Barnum

"Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS."

- Nelson Mandela

"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God."

- Karl Barth

"Laughter is a uniting force, it brings people together, and it makes hardship easier."

- Montaigne

"Laughter is inner jogging."

- Norman Cousins

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects."

- Arnold H. Glasow

"All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other."

- August Wilson

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted."

- Sebastien Roch

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."

- Groucho Marx

"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 need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything."

- James Thurber

"A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life."

- Hugh Sidey

"Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list."

- Jasper Carrott

"Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life."

- Diogo Morgado

"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either."

- Wayne Dyer

"The highest state is laughter."

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times."

- Kimberly Elise

"The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."

- Mark Twain

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."

- Katharine Hepburn

"Just keep swimming."

- Finding Nemo

"Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing."

- Kevin Hart

"Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end."

- Kris Kristofferson

"A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people."

- John Cleese

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."

- Elsa Maxwell

"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

"As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul."

- A Jewish Proverb

"If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can."

- Linda Ellerbee

"A good laugh heals a lot of hurts."

- Madeleine L’Engle

"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes."

- Jack Handey

"Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand."

- Mark Twain

"Grim care, moroseness, and anxiety—all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God’s medicine."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds."

- Red Skelton

"When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?'"

- Sydney J. Harris

"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever."

- Walt Disney

"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed."

- Khalil Gibran

"Laughter has no foreign accent."

- Paul Lowney

"Laughter is God’s hand on the shoulder of a troubled world."

- Bettenell Huntznicker

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

- Henri Bergson

"Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation."

- St. Francis de Sales

"Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing."

- Jean Houston

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

- George Bernard Shaw

"I love being married. It’s so great to find one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life."

- Rita Rudner

"Remember this: very little is needed to make a happy life."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

- George Santayana

"A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whole point of life."

- Celia Imrie

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

- Lord Byron

"Who won in life? Me. Because I got to marry you."

- Chip Gaines

"Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

"He that is of a merry heart has a continual feast."

- Proverbs 15:15

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

- Henry Louis Mencken

"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl."

- Mevlana Rumi

"I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with ’em later."

- Mitch Hedberg

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

- Lucille Ball

"Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt."

- Charles M. Schulz

"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."

- Cat Stevens

"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

"When I was growing up, I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific."

- Lily Tomlin

"Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring."

- Steve Maraboli

"Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are."

- Will Ferrell

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"There are few things in life harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate."

- Barack Obama

"True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway."

- Edna Buchanan

"A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

- William Makepeace Thackeray

"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

"We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought."

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."

- Virginia Woolf

"Laughter is America's most important export."

- Walt Disney

"Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened."

- Lawrence Durrell

"Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom."

- Marcel Duchamp

"Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile."

- Langston Hughes

"God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet."

- Neale Donald Walsch

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

- Jean Houston

"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."

- Thomas Hobbes

"Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God."

- Sean Connery

"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."

- Bennett Cerf

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

- Albert Einstein

"Our revenge will be the laughter of our children."

- Bobby Sands

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

- Frederick W. Nietzche

"A smile is a curve that sets everything straight."

- Phyllis Diller

"From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."

- Dr. Seuss

"He who laughs, lasts!"

- Mary Pettibone Poole

"I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting or the work it takes to plan a date night. I want to hear that you guys watch every episode of The Bachelorette together in secret shame or that one got the other hooked on Breaking Bad, and if either watches it without the other, they're dead meat."

- Mindy Kaling

"Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Smiles are the soul’s kisses."

- Minna Thomas Antrim

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

- Herman Melville

"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher."

- Socrates

"My favorite thing to do on this planet is to play games. And if you don’t enjoy games, then you’re really missing the point of what this life is."

- RuPaul

"An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh."

- Tom Nansbury

"LAUGHTER IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL"

- MARGARET LEE

"A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain."

- Graham Norton

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."

- Isaac Asimov

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

"People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends I need a Ouija board."

- Betty White

"We have a couple of rules in our relationship. The first rule is that I make her feel like she’s getting everything. The second rule is that I actually do let her have her way in everything. And, so far, it’s working."

- Justin Timberlake

"My wife didn't take my name, which isn't weird, but what's weird is when people think it's weird, like we're on a first-name basis anyway."

- Mark Agee

"Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery."

- Erma Bombeck

"Today is a good day to try."

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

"I learned a long time ago that worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere."

- Van Wilder, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder

"My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get."

- Forrest Gump

"If you can’t be kind, at least be vague."

- Judith Martin

"There is no such thing as fun for the whole family."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"Instant gratification takes too long."

- Carrie Fisher

"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."

- Rodney Dangerfield

"I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it."

- Mae West

"Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener."

- Pauline Thomason

"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."

- Steve Martin

"I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road."

- Stephen Hawking

"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well."

- Mark Twain

"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."

- Winnie the Pooh

"Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow."

- Don Herold

"I’m not so good with the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?"

- Chandler Bing

"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

- Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter."

- Francoise Sagan

"Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy."

- Robert Newton Anthony

"Earth laughs in flowers."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."

- Koran

"Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are a cheese."

- Luis Buñuel

"Well, nobody’s perfect."

- Some Like It Hot

"You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

- The Virgin Suicides

"If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer."

- Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

"My husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should have taken a second look."

- Halley Reed

"To call you stupid would be an insult to stupid people! I’ve known sheep that could outwit you. I’ve worn dresses with higher IQs."

- Wanda

"Just ’cause some cute girl likes the same bizarro crap you do, that doesn’t make her your soulmate."

- 500 Days of Summer

"The suspense is terrible. I hope it’ll last."

- Willy Wonka

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

- Oscar Wilde

"Keep calm and carry a wand."

- A.W. Jantha

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

- Dodgeball

"I like my money where I can see it: hanging in my closet."

- Carrie Bradshaw

"Your compilation started my day with laughter. It was a good breakfast."

- Henry Moore

"Here’s the deal, when life gives you lemons, just say f-ck the lemons and bail."