Humor as Medicine Quotes

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

A solid giggle should do the trick.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

I truly think comedy is - being funny is DNA. My dad was a doctor, a wonderful doctor, and people still come up to me today, 'Your father helped my mother die.' You know what I'm saying? He made her laugh 'til she died. My father was always very funny.

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

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

Luckily, I'm not a gambler or a drinker or - you know, I get my fix of comedy.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.

It only hurts when I'm not laughing.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

A comedian is simply a different kind of therapist. A comedian is a psychologist and a psychiatrist rolled into one. Except I can't prescribe medicine. (You still need a doctorate, which is bullshit.) Okay, so I'm not like a psychiatrist. Fine. But I'm still like a psychologist (except I can't diagnose or treat mental illness).

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

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

If you ain't laughing, you ain't living, baby.