49 Quotes About Smiles and Laughter

For many, laughter can be the best medicine you experience in life. These quotes about smiles and laughter will bring you the hope and encouragement you need.

“A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.”

“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.”

“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”

“All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.”

“And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

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

“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”

“Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.”

“Cancer is probably the unfunniest thing in the world, but I’m a comedian, and even cancer couldn’t stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.”

“Carry laughter with you wherever you go.”

“Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman’s smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?”

“Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection.”

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

“He that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.”

“Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.”

“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.”

“I have not seen anyone dying of laughter, but I know millions who are dying because they are not laughing.”

“I prefer your smiles and laughter, wife, but there are far worse things than your tears wetting my skin.”

“I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.”

“If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old.”

“If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”

“Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.”

“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”

“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.”

“People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.”

“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.”

“Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.”

“Seven days without laughter makes one weak.”

“She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.”

“Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.”

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

“Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.”

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

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”

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

“The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.”

“There aren’t many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.”

“There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.”

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”

“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”

“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”

“You’re never fully dressed without a smile.”

Laughter can bring many moments of fun and joy to your life.