"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
--Victor Hugo

"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves."
-- James Matthew Barrie

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."
-- Charlie Chaplin

"The most thoroughly wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
-- Chamfort

"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."
--Mahatma Gandhi

"Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God."
--Henry Ward Beecher

"Comedy is tragedy plus time."
- Carol Burnett

"I love laughing."
--William Blake

"He who laughs last didn't get it."
--Helen Giangregorio

"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals."
--Agnes Repplier

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad."
--Thomas Carlyle

"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance!"
--Anonymous

Here’s to a fellow who smiles
When life runs along like a song.
And here’s to the lad who can smile
When everything goes dead wrong.

Here’s to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer and another one!

We cannot share this sorrow
If we haven’t grieved a while.
Nor can we feel another’s joy
Until we’ve learned to smile.

Grant me a sense of humor, Lord,
The saving grace to see a joke,
To win some happiness from life,
And pass it on to other folk.

--(Irish toasts and Blessings)

"Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable."
-- Ambrose Bierce

"The earth laughs in flowers."
-- E.E. Cummings

"WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness."
--Ellie Katz

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out alive."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"In the end, everything is a gag."
-- Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977)

"The gods too are fond of a joke."
-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." --Friedrich Nietzsche

"The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart."
--Mencius

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
--George Bernard Shaw

"An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
-- W. C. Fields (1880-1946)

"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."
-- W.H. Auden

"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."
-- Russell Lynes

"He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise.
--William Blake 1757 - 1827

"Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."
--Mark Twain

"To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites."
--Robert A. Heinlein

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."
--Colette

"If you never did, you should.
These things are fun, and fun is good."
--Dr. Seuss

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."
--Tom Robbins, from Still Life with Woodpecker

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."
--Ethel Barrymore

"Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself, he'll never cease to be amused."
--Anonymous

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
--Oscar Wilde

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
--Emily Dickenson

"All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
--Anonymous

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
--The 14th Dalai Lama

"It's a magical world, Hobbes, Ol' Buddy...let's go exploring!"
--Calvin's last words,12/31/95 (Calvin & Hobbes)

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
-- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

"When men discuss the things which are to be, the rats laugh in the rafters ."
--Anonymous

"Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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