 | "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
- Agnes Repplier
, Americans and Others, 1912. |
| "Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
- Bob Newhart
. |
| "Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
- Colette
, Chance Acquaintances, 1952. |
| "Laughter is by definition healthy."
- Doris Lessing
. |
| The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
- e e cummings
. |
| "If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old."
- Edgar Watson Howe
. |
| "Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
- Elsa Maxwell
, September 28, 1958. |
| "You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh."
- Jay Leno
. |
| "In this life he laughs longest who laughs last."
- John Masefield
, "Window in Bye Street", 1912. |
| "Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."
- Joseph Addison
, The Spectator, September 26, 1712. |