Quotes about Laughter

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

I am absolutely at ease working in a comedy.

Comedy was always an escape for me; I just happened to be a doctor.

I have never met leadership without a sense of humor; this ability to stand outside oneself and one's circumstances, to see things in perspective and laugh. It is a great safety value! You will never lead others far without the joy of the Lord and its concomitant, a sense of humor.3

Douglas Thornton [an English Christian missionary to Cairo, Egypt with the Church Missionary Society from 1898-1907] was often more amusing than he tried to be. He had a delightful way of mixing up two kindred proverbs or idioms. Once he told his companions that he always had two strings up his sleeve. They then asked him if he had another card to his bow. Such exchanges enliven heavy committee eetings and create wholesome laughter.

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

Science would like to tell us that people laugh because of the benign violation theory, but comedy doesn't have hard rules.

It is a fact too little known, but as far as I am concerned undeniable, that Providence has a great sense of humor, and of course, the best!

Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you've been knocked down. Failing Forward

A cheerful heart is good medicine.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.