98 Warming Laughter Quotes To Start Your Day Fresh

What’s the first thing that comes into your mind when you wake up? I’ll bet it’s not so much funny as it is worrying. Not a great way to start the day.

Have you ever considered turning to humour as soon as your eyes are open? A smile goes a long way, so it makes perfect sense that laughter goes even further. It could basically take you to the moon and back, and it’s contagious too. When you laugh, others will follow suit and this could be all it takes to make someones day.

One of our most basic emotional responses, laughter is as natural to us as breathing. And when it comes to self-managed health and wellbeing, it really is the best medicine. With far-ranging benefits, laughter relieves pain, brings great happiness and increases immunity making it a signature strength anyone is able to possess.

So, save this page on as many devices as you need to, to assure you’re starting your day with some fresh laughter for a 24-hour-long “happy vibe” guarantee.

1. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

2. A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

William Thackeray

3. The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Voltaire

4. As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul.

A Jewish Proverb

5. Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

6. The beauty of the world has two edges; one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

7. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

8. The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain

9. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. 

Victor Hugo

10. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron

11. The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow. 

Socrates

12. Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile—smile five times a day at someone you don’t really want to smile at all—do it for peace. So let us radiate peace…and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power. 

Mother Teresa

13. A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

Madeleine L’Engle

14. The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Kahlil Gibran

15. We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we are happy because we laugh.

William James

16. Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Jean Houston

17. The greatest prayer you could ever pray is to laugh every day.

Ramtha

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

Dr. Madan Kataria

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

Mark Twain

20. 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

21. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

22. Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Norman Cousins

23. The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

24. I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

Viktor Frankl

25. When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Erma Bombeck

26. A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.

Herman Melville

27. We look before and after, and pine for what is not; our sincerest laughter with some pain is fraught; our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Shelley

28. Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

29. We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping. 

Minna Thomas Antrim

30. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. 

Mark Twain

31. Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

W. H. Auden

32. What is funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously.

Reinhold Neibuhr

33. You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. 

George Bernard Shaw

34. 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

35. Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Peter Ustinov

37. When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. 

Katherine Mansfield

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

Benjamin Franklin

39. Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Continue to learn. Play with abandon. Choose with no regret. Laugh! Do what you love. Love as if this is all there is.

Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

40. He who laughs, lasts! 

Mary Pettibone Poole

41. It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

Fred Allen

42. Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.

Golda Meir

43. I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another’s load this day as I fare along.

Mary S. Edgar

44. The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Anne Rice

45. I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

Linda Ellerbee

46. Your body cannot heal without play. Your mind cannot heal without laughter. Your soul cannot heal without joy.

Catherine Rippenger Fenwick

47. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside.

Zero Mostel

48. The person who has a sense of humor is not just more relaxed in the face of a potentially stressful situation, but is more flexible in his approach.

John Morreall

49. Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

Reginald Heber

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

James Langston Hughes

51. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitter for the moment. Cheerfulness keeps up daylight in the mind, filling it with steady and perpetual serenity.

Samuel Johnson

52. The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people – that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. The wellspring of laughter is not happiness, but pain, stress, and suffering.

James Thurber

53. If Laughter cannot solve your problems, it will definitely DISSOLVE your problems; so that you can think clearly what to do about them.

Dr. Madan Kataria

54. Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

55. An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Tom Nansbury

56. You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

57. If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing — trees and stones and stars with you.

Osho

58. You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.

Ethel Barrymore

59. 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.

Gilda Radner

60. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. 

George Carlin

61. Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. 

Reinhold Niebuhr

62. True humor springs more from the heart than from the head; it is not contempt, its essence is love.

Thomas Carlyle

63. Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

Mark Twain

64. Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Kenny Ausubel

65. Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

Henri Bergson

66. Wit is the key, I think, to anybody’s heart, because who doesn’t like to laugh?

Julia Roberts

67. A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Herbert Procknow

68. Remember this: very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aurelius

69. Smiles are the soul’s kisses.

Minna Thomas Antrim

70. Grim care, moroseness, and anxiety—all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God’s medicine.

Henry Ward Beecher

71. The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

72. He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.

William Blake

73. Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation.

St. Francis de Sales

74. 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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

75. If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you’re bullet-proof.

Ricky Gervais

76. He that is of a merry heart has a continual feast.

Proverbs 15:15

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

Bennett Cerf

78. Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real Sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.

Mevlana Rumi

79. When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

Josh Billings

80. A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly; but a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows, and bubbles all around.

Carolyn Birmingham

81. Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.

Sebastien Roch

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

Jean Houston

83. Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

Benjamin Franklin

84. From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Dr. Seuss

85. Most people would rather be certain they’re miserable than risk being happy.

Robert Newton Anthony

86. When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.

Buddha

87. smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

88. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

ANne Frank

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

Voltaire

90. When you laugh, aside from the endorphin rush, there’s also a spiritual opening. You’re not so tight inside yourself. That opening I’ve found to be a real gift, in people being able to absorb spirituality.

Rabbi Sydney Mintz

91. As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

Lao Tsu

92. Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being. 

Stella McCartney

93. If you have no tragedy, you have no comedy. Crying and laughing are the same emotion. If you laugh too hard, you cry. And vice versa.

Sid Caesar

94. When you laugh, you get a glimpse of God.

Merrily Belgum

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

Edgar Watson Howe

96. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

E E Cummings

97. No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Red Skelton

98. To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it. 

Charlie Chaplin