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Beware of those who laugh at nothing or everything.

Arnold Glasow

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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.

Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Clarence Darrow

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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Anthony Burgess

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To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

William Arthur Ward

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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Voltaire

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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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My life has been one great big joke A dance that's walked A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.

Maya Angelou

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The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

George Santayana

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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Alan Alda

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Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.

Sri da Avabhas

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There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Niels Henrik David Bohr

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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Erma Bombeck

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We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

Jonathan Carroll

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It is not funny that anything else should fall down only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh Because it is a gravely religious matter it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd for only man can be dignified.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for 5 seconds and think for 10 minutes.

William Davis

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

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I have often been downcast, but never in despair I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.

Anne Frank

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It is easy to forget that the most important aspect of comedy, after all, its great saving grace, is its ambiguity. You can simultaneously laugh at a situation, and take it seriously.

Stephen Fry

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