Gift Of Laughter Quotes:

I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

source: W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.193, Oxford University Press

topic: Pain, Laughter, World, Gift Of Laughter

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

- Mother Teresa

source: Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

topic: Happiness, Smile, Beautiful, Keep Smiling, Just Keep Smiling

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Happiness, Bullying, Business, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

- Rafael Sabatini

source: Scaramouche ch. 1 (1921)

topic: Life, Happiness, Laughter, Gift Of Laughter

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

- Charlie Chaplin

topic: Funny, Laughter, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter, Inspirational Laughter

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

topic: Smile, Laughter, Frustration, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

- Lord Byron

topic: Life, Motivational, Positive, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

- Mort Walker

topic: Happiness, Laughter, Heart, Cobwebs, Gift Of Laughter

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

- Karl Barth

topic: Happiness, Laughter, Humor, Gift Of Laughter

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Inspirational, Laughter, Humor, Humour And Laughter, Snoopy

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Life, Laughter, Humor, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

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

- Bob Newhart

source: Bob Newhart (2006). “I shouldn't even be doing this: and other things that strike me as funny”

topic: Happiness, Moving On, Smile, Inspirational Laughter, Laughs And Smiles

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

- Martin Luther

topic: Humor, Laughing, Heaven, Humor And Laughter, Laughter And Joy

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

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Happiness, Smile, Laughter, Inspirational Laughter, Laughs And Smiles

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Birthday, Happiness, Laughter, Happier Life, Birthday Cake

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

- Bill Cosby

topic: Life, Happiness, Laughter, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

- Grant Morrison

topic: Honesty, Children, Dirty, Humor And Laughter, Humor Laughter

I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

- Buddy Hackett

topic: Laughter, People, Laughing, Gift Of Laughter

Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Laughter, Mistake, Men, Gift Of Laughter

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

- Sydney J. Harris

topic: Laughter, Blessed, Men, Gift Of Laughter

Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Laughter, Joy, Victory, Regression, Laughter And Joy

Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

- Max Beerbohm

topic: Laughter, Believe, Grateful, Laugh Often, Gift Of Laughter

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

- Gloria Vanderbilt

topic: Love, Smile, Laughter, Gift Of Laughter

It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people.

- Robert Schimmel

topic: Laughter, Attitude, Fighting, Gift Of Laughter

Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.

- Carrot Top

topic: Laughter, World, Props, Gift Of Laughter