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 everything.

                                                                                                --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 laughter let old wrinkles come.”
                                                                                                --Williams Shakespeare

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

                                                                                                --John Steinbeck