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'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. --Dryden
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash. --Puzant Kevork Thomajan
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. --Carl Sagan
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good laugh. --Indigo Girls
Have a good cry, wash out your heart. If you keep it inside it'll tear you apart. Sometimes you lose, but you're gonna win if you just hang in. --Dr. Hook
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh. --The Koran
He who laughs last has just thought of another meaning.
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
He who Laughs, Lasts.
I love laughing. --William Blake
I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing for you. --Some comic, some TV show
I wept not, so to stone within I grew. --Dante
If you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of other people.
If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else is going to do it for you, and you're not going to enjoy it nearly as much.
If you know you're going to look back on today and laugh, you might as well start laughing now.
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. --Fyodor Dostoyevski
In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me laugh. --W. H. Auden
Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs louder.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. --Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. --Christian Morgenstern
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. --Victor Borge
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. --Victor Hugo
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. --Charlie Chaplin
Let tears flow of their own accord : their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. --Seneca
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they might have been. --William Hazlitt
No smile is so beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
Nobody ever died of laughter. --Max Beerbohm
Oh! too convincing -- dangerously dear -- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! --Lord Byron
Only to have a grief equal to all these tears! --Adrienne Rich
People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. --Dr. James Walsh
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. --Friedrich Nietzsche
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. --Alfred Austin
The earth laughs in flowers. --E.E. Cummings
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. --Mark Twain
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. --Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. --H. L. Mencken
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. --John Vance Cheney
Thinking is a subversive activity. So is laughter.
Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.-- Golda Meir
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts. --Frank Tyger
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
--William Wordsworth
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
What I want to do is make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously. --William K. Zinsser
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! --Agnes Repplier
Women's weapon, water-drops. --William Shakespeare
You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature. --William Rotsler
