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The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.
Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
Tom Bodett
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Eileen Caddy
Laughter is higher than all pain.
Elbert Hubbard
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Mae West
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.
Kurt Vonnegut
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Elsa Maxwell
Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.
Blaise Pascal
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Johann von Goethe
Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
Ambrose Bierce
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Doris Lessing
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
Charles Lamb
We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.
William James
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de la Bruyere
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.
Lord Chesterfield, letter to his
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
Raymond Hitchcock
Seeing a murder on television can … help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
Alfred Hitchcock
The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem
