Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

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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

22.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

23.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

25.

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Addison, Joseph

29.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

30.

Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

31.

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

36.

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

37.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

40.

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

Larry Gelbart

41.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

42.

There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

43.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

44.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

45.

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 of been.

Hazlitt, William

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

47.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin