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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Yiddish proverb
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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
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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. -Agnes Repplier
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There is always a secret irritation about a laugh in which we cannot join.

Agnes Repplier
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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart
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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. -Edgar Watson Howe
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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations.

Norman Cousins
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Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions.

Norman Cousins
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Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. -Thomas Hobbes
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The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

Shirley MacLaine
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.

Malcolm De Chazal
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world. -Peter Ustinov
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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron
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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
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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

F. Sagan
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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette
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Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes. -Tom Mullen
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Charlie Chaplin
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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Marlene Dietrich
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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained. -Sir John Powell
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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins
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If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

Jimmy Buffett
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Laughter is by definition healthy. -Doris Lessing
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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart
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Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. -Sean O'Casey
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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

John Cleese
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

William Saroyan
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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. -Stephen King
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