– “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen
– “At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ” – Jean Houston
– “Even if there is nothing to laugh about, laugh on credit.” – Unknown
– “Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.” – Henry Ward Beecher
– “Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.” – Jack Handey, “Deep Thoughts”, Saturday Night Live
– “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – Unknown
– “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
– “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge
– “What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.” – Yiddish Proverb
– “When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other.” – Alan Alda
– “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
– “A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.” – Irish Proverb
– “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart
– “A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.” – Puzant Kevork Thomajan
– “There can never be enough said of the virtues, dangers, the power of a shared laugh.” – Françoise Sagan
– “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, «Ain’t that the truth.»” – Quincy Jones
– “Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.” – Henri Bergson
– “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
– “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” – Raymond Hitchcock
– “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut
– “Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food.” – Anna Fellows Johnston
– “No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.” – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, chapter 4
– “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
– “With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.” – Abraham Lincoln
– “Whoever said “laughter is the best medicine” never had gonorrhea.” – Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, “Robbed a Stoner Blind”, original airdate 16 November 2006
– “Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.” – Ken Kesey
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. – Plato
A boy’s story is the best that is ever told. – Charles Dickens
If I have a monument in this world, it is my son. – Maya Angelou
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass of jar on my desk. – Stephen King
I was so poor growing up – if I wasn’t a boy – I’d have had nothing to play with. – Rodney Dangerfield
A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair, and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket. – Unknown