Laughter

(64 votes)   Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Jean Baudrillard
French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer

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(63 votes)   A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Puzant Kevork Thomajan

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(63 votes)   No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(61 votes)   Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Robert Holden

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(55 votes)   Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

The Koran
c. 500 AD, Islamic Religious Bible

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(49 votes)   If someone can make you laugh, they can make you cry

Kazi Shams

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(48 votes)   Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent reliefs we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Joseph Addison

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(47 votes)   Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Robert Holden

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(44 votes)   Every new time will give its law.

Maxim Gorky
1868-1936, Russian Novelist

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(44 votes)   It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca
4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(44 votes)   Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(43 votes)   If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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(43 votes)   When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.

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(42 votes)   Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(41 votes)   I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Shaun Prowdzik

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