LOL
PART 1
1. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. - Mark Twain
2. A good laugh heals a lot of hurts. - Madeleine L’Engle
3. A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing. - Herman Melville
4. A good laugh is sunshine in the house. - William Thackeray
5. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln
6. A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. - Phyllis Diller
7. 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
8. A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable. - Herbert Procknow
9. Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. - Mark Twain
10. Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron
11. 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
12. An optimist laughs to forget; a pessimist forgets to laugh. - Tom Nansbury
13. And keep a sense of humor. It doesn’t mean you have to tell jokes. If you can’t think of anything else, when you’re my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you’ll get a laugh. - Art Linkletter
14. 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
15. As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul. - A Jewish Proverb
16. As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. - Lao Tsu
17. At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. - Jean Houston
18. Cancer is probably the most unfunny 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
19. 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
20. Earth laughs in flowers. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Even the gods love jokes - Plato
22. 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
23. From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere. - Dr. Seuss
24. God has a smile on His face. - Psalm 42:5
25. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. - Voltaire
26. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God’s medicine. - Henry Ward Beecher
27. He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. - Koran
28. He that is of a merry heart has a continual feast. - Proverbs 15:15
29. 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
30. He who laughs, lasts! - Mary Pettibone Poole
31. Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. - Reinhold Niebuhr
32. Humor is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it. - James Langston Hughes
33. I commend mirth. - Ecclesiastes 8:15
34. 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
35. 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
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. 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
38. 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
39. If you don’t learn to laugh at trouble, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you’re old. - Edgar Watson Howe
40. 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
41. If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know the man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you’ll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man…All I claim to know is that laughter is the most reliable gauge of human nature. - Feodor Dostoyevsky
42. If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
43. It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. - Fred Allen
44. It’s one thing to say, ‘I don’t fear death’, but to laugh out loud somehow drives the idea home. It embodies our theology. -Rev. Laura Gentry
45. Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. - Elsa Maxwell
46. Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being. -Stella & Blake
47. 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
48. Laughter has no foreign accent. - Paul Lowney
49. 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
50. Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. - Zero Mostel
51. Laughter is God’s hand on the shoulder of a troubled world. - Bettenell Huntznicker
52. Laughter is inner jogging. - Norman Cousins
53. Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. ~ - Henri Bergson
54. Laughter is the foundation of reconciliation. - St. Francis de Sales
55. 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
56. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. - Victor Borge
57. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo
58. Laughter lets me relax. It’s the equivalent of taking a deep breath, letting it out and saying, ‘This, too, will pass’. - Odette Pollar
59. Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease. - Norman Cousins
60. 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 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
61. Let your heart by merry. - Judges 19:6