Dick Dale Quotes

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids. Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche and then applies an antibiotic cream. You gotta keep it away from your eyes.

A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Humor is healing.

I reach for funny books all the time to help me get through life.

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.

All comedy shows make me feel better about everything.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

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

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

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

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

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

I really try to have fun. If I don't have fun, you won't have fun. That's what my gift is: to relieve people from a little of the pain and comfort in their lives by allowing my comedy to distract them. A good laugh is almost as good as any doctor visit.

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Laughter can bring a new perspective.