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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Charlie Chaplin
“Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.”
Charlie Chaplin
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!”
Charlie Chaplin
“ That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.”
Quintilian
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.”
Roger Zelazny
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.”
Albert Einstein
“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
Mark Twain
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain
“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”
Oscar Wilde
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Voltaire
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?”
Jane Austen
“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”
Winston Churchill
“The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.”
Phyllis Diller
“The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.”
Phyllis Diller
“With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.”
Moliere
“Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain”
Aldous Huxley
“Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.”
Lord Byron
“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”
Lord Byron
“But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.”
Sophocles
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
Victor Hugo
“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Victor Hugo
“Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.”
Victor Hugo
“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?”
William Shakespeare
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
William Shakespeare
“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”
William Shakespeare
“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“People think our music's very aggressive or angry or whatever, and it's just the opposite, really... I like laughing. And I like being really calm before a show, and smiley.”
Serj Tankian
“If you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything”
Marilyn Monroe