Laughter

(92 votes)   If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Edgar Watson Howe
1853-1937, American Journalist, Author

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(90 votes)   I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Philip Dormer Stanhope

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(89 votes)   Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Lord Chesterfield
1694-1773, British Statesman, Author

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(87 votes)   Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Harriet Rochlin

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(86 votes)   Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

French Proverbs
Sayings of French Origin

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(86 votes)   No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.

Jean Paul

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(83 votes)   The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(80 votes)   The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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(79 votes)   Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(76 votes)   What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(74 votes)   There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Sir William Osler
1849-1919, Canadian Physician

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(73 votes)   We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

James Thurber
1894-1961, American Humorist, Illustrator

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(72 votes)   Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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(69 votes)   He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

The Koran
c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible

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(66 votes)   They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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