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• It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

  Francois Rabelais

  Happiness, Writing, Men

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• Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself. I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself. I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else.

  Nhat Hanh

  Dark, Practice, Be Kind

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Be Free Where You Are: A Talk Given at the Maryland Correctional Institute: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Witty, Laughing, People

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.378, OUP Oxford

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• I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile

  Ray Bradbury

  Laughing, I Smile

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “When elephants last in the dooryard bloomed: celebrations for almost any day in the year”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Happiness, Humor

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• In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

  John Masefield

  Life, Laughing, Lasts

  Widow in Bye Street (1912) ch. 4, p. 66

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• The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughing, Mind, Loud

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

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• The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Inspirational, Happiness, Heart

  Liz Curtis Higgs (1993). “One Size Fits All and Other Fables”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

  John Quinton

  Sacrifice, Cost, Too Much

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• Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

  Ivor Novello

  Happiness, Blessed, Feel Better

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• Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Joy, Groups

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Comedy: An Essay on Comedy”, p.68, Doubleday

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• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Joy, Heirs

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• One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

  Francois Rabelais

  Grief, Men, Laughing

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

  Evan Esar

  Laughing, World, Cry

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor Frankl, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1946.

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• 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 ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Motivational, Animal

  Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

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• When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

  Alan Alda

  Happiness, Peace, Humorous

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• For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

  Horace

  Men, Laughing, Remember

  "Epistles" by Horace, Book II. 1. 262,

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• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

  William Osler

  Feelings, Egotism

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• 'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

  John Dryden

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

  Francois Rabelais

  Writing, Men, Laughing

  "The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (Introduction)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1532-1564.

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