Quotes about laughter

I doubt if there is among us a more useful citizen than the one who holds the secret of banishing gloom, of making tears give way to laughter, of supplanting desolation and despair with hope and courage, for hope and courage always go with a light heart.Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• fun
• laughter
• sadness

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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• humor
• laughter

Laughter is an instant vacation.Milton Berle

• humor
• laughter

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.Will Rogers

• laughter