1. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.-Victor Borge
2. Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.-Jasper Carrott
3. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.-Victor Hugo
4. 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
5. A day without laughter is a day wasted.-Charlie Chaplin
6. Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.-Josh Billings
7. Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.-Oscar Wilde
8. Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.-Jim Butcher
9. I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it’s the only thing to make it stop hurting.-Robert A. Heinlein
10. Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.-Norman Cousins
11. A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can’t see clearly.-Emily Mitchell
12. Laughter is an instant vacation.-Milton Berle
13. Laughter feels like our flotation device — it won’t pull us out of the storm, but it might carry us through, if we can just hang on.-Emery Lord
14. Laughter has no foreign accent.-Paul Lowney
15. Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.-Yakov Smirnoff
16. At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.-Jean Huston
17. You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.-Michael Pritchard
18. A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.-Madeleine L’Engle
19. I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.-John Green
20. Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter – like a wail – acknowledges and replies to pain.-Tim O’Brien
21. Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.-Arnold H. Glasow
22. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.-Zero Mostel
23. Laughter brings out the child in all of us.-Bill Cosby
24. Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.-Carol Channing
25. The house of laughter makes a house of woe.-Edward Young
26. Laughter lets me relax. It’s the equivalent of taking a deep breath, letting it out and saying, This, too, will pass-Odette Pollar
27. 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
28. There is little success where there is little laughter.-Andrew Carnegie
29. Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation.-St. Francis de Sales