Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Sean Connery

Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
James Thurber

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote.
George Gurdjieff

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Agnes Repplier

Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
Peter Ustinov

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
Allen Klein

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Eileen Caddy

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Lawrence Durrell

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.
Red Skelton

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.
Mary Pickford

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut

My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Carroll O'Connor

Nobody ever died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
George Byron

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
Allen Klein

Old hippies don't die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.
Joseph Gallivan

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
Chuck Jones

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.
Francoise Sagan

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph Addison