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As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it!  [Laotse 500 B.C.]

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. [Victor Borge l [Danish-American musician/artist 1909-2000]

He who cannot laugh, cannot start a shop. [Confusius 551 b.c.]

Laughter is an instant vacation. [anonymous]

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. [Henri Bergson l French philosopher 1859-1941]

A good time to laugh is any time you can. [Linda Ellerbee]

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. [Raymond Hitchcock  American silent film actor 1865-1929]

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. [Victor Hugo]

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. [Abraham Lincoln]

What soap is to the body is laughter to the soul. [Yiddish proverb]

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. [Carl Sandburg l American writer/poet 1878-1967]

A laugh is a bridge.[brazilian saying]

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. [Yakof Smirnoff l Ukrainian-born American comedian/painter 1951]

He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. [Theodor Adorno, German sociologist/philosopher 1903-1969]

Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.[Ken Kesey]

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. [Friedrich Nietzsche]

Laughter is an orgasm, triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense. [anonymous]

When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing each other. [Milton I British poet 1608-1674]