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A good laugh is sunshine in a house. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
A joke is a very serious thing. -- Winston
Churchill (1874-1965) British Statesman, Soldier
A laugh is the shortest distance between two
people. -- Gen Mora in "Graffiti"
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. -- Bible (Prov. 17:22)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom
I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. -- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs—jolted by every pebble
in the road. -- Henry Ward Beecher
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
-- Jean Houston
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk
the tightrope of life. -- William Arthur Ward
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall
never cease to be amused. -- Author Unknown
God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of
laughter. -- Sydney Harris
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. -- Grenville Kleiser
He who laughs, lasts. -- Author Unknown
Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious
when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations. -- Ron Dentinger
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. -- Mary
Hirsch
Humor is man's survival kit. -- Gene Mora
Humor is reason gone mad. -- Groucho Marx
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The
minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip
away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. -- Mark Twain
If somebody makes me laugh, I'm his slave forever. -- Bette Midler
If we can't laugh at life, we are in big
trouble. -- Marjorie Pay Hinckley (Ensign, Oct. 2003, p
22)
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of
humor. -- Jennifer Jones
If you don't have a sense of humor, you probably don't have any sense at all. -- A
Grandmother
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform tears into something bearable, even
hopeful. -- Bob Hope
I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
-- Izaak Walton (1593-1683) English writer
I'm not funny. What I am is brave. -- Lucille Ball
It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. -- Seneca
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. -- Aeschylus
It's easy to be a humorist when you've got the
whole government working for you. -- Will Rogers
It's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. -- George Carlin
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then
move on. -- Bob Newhart, (1929- ) US comedian, actor
Laughter is America's most important export. --
Walt Disney
Laughter is an instant vacation. -- Milton Berle
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. -- Arnold Glasow
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry and
makes it easier to swallow. -- Diane Johnson
Life is not a laughing matter - but can you imagine having to live without laughing? --
Leonid Sukhorukov
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to
bathe in it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm
People who don't laugh are the ones who crack up. -- William Wilson
Save me, oh God, from people who have no sense of humor. -- Ludlow Porc
Tell me what you laugh at and I'll tell you who you are. -- Marcel Pagnol
The human race has one really
effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain
The only way to get through life is to laugh
your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer
to laugh. Crying gives me a headache. -- Marjorie Pay Hinckley (Glimpses
into the Life and Heart of Marjorie Pay Hinckley, 1999, p
107)
What really scares me most, more than nukes or cancer, is a man or woman without a sense
of humor. -- Jonathan Winters
When humor goes, there goes civilization. -- Erma Bombeck
When you can't laugh at yourself, you really are
the joke. -- Gene Mora in "Graffiti"
When you lose your laugh you lose your footing. -- Ken Kesey
You grow up the day you have your first real
laugh at yourself. -- Ethel Barrymore
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you
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