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“full of love, laughter, and lots of food.”
Lovi Poe (born 1989) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Christmas as a Family"—New Mom Lovi Poe Shares a Glimpse of Holiday Spent With Husband, Child, and Fur Baby, Metro.Style 27 December 2025.
“Now here’s to many more years filled with love, laughter, and adventure...”
Zsa Zsa Padilla (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most importantly, we entrust everything to God, grounding our faith with good deeds.❤️ Here’s to continuing our journey together with love and laughter along with our stunning daughters. Happy Anniversaries!!!🥰,”
Bangs Garcia (born 1987) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bangs Garcia celebrates 10th anniversary with husband Lloyd Birchmore, Nikka Sabio 24 January 2025.
“I wanted to hear Sappho’s laughter and the speech of her stringed shell.What I heard was whiskered mumble- ment of grammarians:Greek pterodactyls and Victorian dodos.”
Mary Barnard (1909–2001) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Static". Collected Poems (Portland, OR: Breitenbush, 1981) p. 64
“It is true that her heart is sick, but where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.”
Phyllis Bottome (1882–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It brings me so much joy and gratitude to be reunited with my high school classmates, surrounded by familiar faces who were part of my journey during my humble beginnings. Seeing all of you reminds me of where it all started—our shared experiences, laughter, and challenges back in high school, which have shaped us into who we are today.”
Daphne Lagon wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here is Cirilli. Laughter is guaranteed. His own.”
Giancarlo Magalli (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I pluck these words from the lips of the wind. Ripe like a pendulous pledge; Laughter’s parable explodes in the groin. Of waking storms. Clamorous with a covenant of wizened seeds.”
Niyi Osundare (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For those people who find laughter”
Susan Kiguli (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not like there are bursts of laughter from whites, coloureds … everyone laughs together.”
Leon Schuster (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever.”
Walt Disney (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Charlie Chaplin (misattributed) first seen 1795 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Widely attributed to Chaplin and a few others, research done for "A Day Without Laughter is a Day Wasted" at Quote Investigator indicate that such expressions date back to that of Nicolas Chamfort, published in "Histori…
“Laughter is the only tranquillizer with no side effects.”
Red Symons (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And still, laughter is akin to weeping.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who always prefaces his tale with laughter is poised between impertinence and folly.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I pity people who can't find laughter or at least some bit of amusement in the little doings of the day. I believe I could find something ridiculous even in the saddest moment, if necessary. It has nothing to do with being superficial. It's a matter of joy in life.”
Sophie Scholl (disputed) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Christian Jazz Artists Newsletter (February/March 2005); this source is disputed as it does not cite an original document for the quote.
“Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.”
Madeline Kahn (attributed) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1989 interview. Reported in William H. Honan, The New York Times (December 4, 1999) "Madeline Kahn: Funny Actress in 'Blazing Saddles'", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, p. A-11
“As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The laughter which it creates is impish and devilish, the very mirth of fiends, and its wit the gleam and glare of infernal light.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (misattributed) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Landon, in Little House on the Prairie (TV series), Season 2, Ep 8 (5 November 1975) "Remember Me", Part 1
“Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.”
Arnold Glasow (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The winds of winter wailing through the woods; The mighty laughter of the vernal floods.”
Abraham Coles (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the sky.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Humor itself is a kind strange thing in the first place, it's kind of a short-circuit in the brain around horror that saves us from having to face it totally.”
James Jones (1921–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 1930s — a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.”
Wilfrid Sheed (1930–2011) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Thurber: Men, Women, and Dogs" (1975), p. 228
“exclusively verbal humor have been conveyed by Harpo Marx, who with Charles Chaplin, Jimmy Savo, and Danny Kaye, ranks as a master artist of pantomime.”
Harpo Marx (1888–1964) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Muriel Rukeyser The Life of Poetry (1949)
“I know that when I write, I'm writing for people who can handle high-school math, read at the Grade 12 level, and appreciate subtle humor as opposed to the toilet-bowl kind. I guess that makes the lower cutoff about 17-18 years old.”
Sean Punch (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The American Dance", in Modern Dance, ed. Virginia Stewart (1945).
“The Pink Panther is supposed to use humor to uplift. Instead, I departed this movie feeling depressed. Lifeless comedies can suck the energy out of a viewer, especially when they sully the image of an cinematic icon.”
James Berardinelli (born 1967) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Review of The Pink Panther (2006).
“President Ford used humor a great deal.”
Robert Orben (1928–2023) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gail Russell Chaddock (January 3, 2007) "Congress tries Ford's way - The late president's emphasis on compromise is recalled as the 110th Congress is set to convene", Christian Science Monitor, p. 1.
“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.”
Robert Orben (1928–2023) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elizabeth Kastor (May 6, 1987) "The Jokers Take Heart - Pundits Ponder The Implications", The Washington Post, p. B1.
“Nowadays, you cannot be a very Effective political figure without Having a demonstrable sense of humor. People take to it.”
Robert Orben (1928–2023) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Claudia Buck (May 26, 1986) "Humorless Election Year Is Nothing To Laugh At", Sacramento Bee, p. A1.
“It is the uncensored sense of humor of a people which is the ultimate therapy for man in society.”
Evan Esar (1899–1995) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20,000 Quips & Quotes, (1968), Introduction, xiii.
“Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that. There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not that I have ever been there.”
Cassandra Clare (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their opposites. It is an humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities of existence, promoting tolerant views of life, bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sanya, Knight of the Cross: There is, I think, humor here which does not translate well from English into sanity.”
Jim Butcher (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.”
A. Whitney Brown (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“everyone around the world has a humor”
Hannah Gadsby (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Arrive at the net with the puck and in ill humor.”
Fred Shero (1925–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He liked the style, that wry gallows humor armed with the semblance of omniscience; a most serviceable style it was, the dialect of the initiated, protecting them from their disillusionments, their fears, their well-concealed childish hopes.”
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He [Turing] was particularly fond of little programming tricks (some people would say that he was too fond of them to be a "good" programmer) and would chuckle with boyish good humor at any little tricks I may have used.”
James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.”
Wentworth Miller (born 1972) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: TheScene.com.au. 14 Jun 2007. Beanpole give Miller a Break. 27 Aug 2009.
“I'm always amazed when I go to do stand-up dates and the ad in the paper says, "For Mature Audiences Only." Nothing could be more immature than my stand-up. It's all derived from the silly humor my dad instilled in me. Poop and penis jokes. I really should be billed in perpetuity as "For Immature Audiences Only." I'm in the process of evolving past that. Could take a while.”
Bob Saget (1956–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must feel all the emotions that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like mood in the listener.”
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) said by 1788 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland (1956) by Sam Morgenstern, p. 60
“I don't understand why people don't have a f***ing sense of humor. Always assume that I'm being sarcastic.”
Megan Fox (born 1986) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Megan Fox: 'Fallen' Angel. Entertainment Weekly. (Jun 10, 2009)Page 4 of 4