Saturday, August 16, 2008

Laughable Quotes

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~Jean Houston

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. ~e.e. cummings

Laughter is an instant vacation. ~Milton Berle

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! ~Agnes Repplier

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. ~Gordon W. Allport

What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. ~Max Eastman

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. ~Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis

A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. ~Author unknown, from an editorial in New York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren

Seven days without laughter makes one weak. ~Mort Walker

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. ~Arnold Glasow

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

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - its as simple as that. - Jay Leno

One doesn't have the sense of humor. It has you. - Larry Gelbart

He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone poole

Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.- Michael Pritchard

Constitution gives people the right to persue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Ben Franklin

Nobody really cares if you're miserable. So you might as well be happy. - Cynthia Nelms

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally at one place. - Josh Billings