Richard L. Evans Quotes

I am trying to release endorphins here. I am not preaching to you - I am trying to make you laugh.

Laugh and your life will be lengthened for this is the great secret of long life.

Just having someone make you laugh so hard that it hurts is so healing to me.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

Everybody really needs to laugh... If you don't laugh, you're not going to live long.

I was a product of a divorced family and I used humor as a weapon to combat sadness. I used comedy to make my mother laugh in light of the darkness that she faced, and to me it became a very powerful tool at a very young age, at six. I saw how therapeutic it could be.

I'd go mad if I didn't have things to make me laugh.

You don't stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.

If I don't laugh at least 20 times a day - it hasn't been a good day.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.

If you're sick, watch funny movies.

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.

The next time you're tempted to groan, you might try to laugh instead. It will extend your life and make the lives of all those around you more enjoyable.