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Laughter is the best medicine. - Joe-kster

Laughter is by definition healthy. - Doris Lessing

Humor is the most engaging cowardice. - Robert Frost

Why should things be easy to understand? - Thomas Pynchon

Laughter is brightest where food is best. - Irish Proverb

When humor goes, there goes civilization. - Erma Bombeck

A poor joke must invent its own laughter. - Latin Proverb

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial. - James Joyce

A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - Clive James

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Plant smiles
Grow laughter
Harvest love - Unknown

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge

Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. - Tom Lehrer

A little perspective, like a little humor, goes a long way. - Allen Klein

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe and exhaled in a pun. - Charles Lamb

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. - Phyllis Bottome

Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever. - Amit Kalantri

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. - Bernard Williams

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger. - Allen Klein

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humour. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. - Clifton Fadiman

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. - Agnes Repplier

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. - Francoise Sagan

I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does! - Debbie Gibson

Of puns it has been said that they who most dislike them are least able to utter them. - Edgar Allan Poe

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding. - Agnes Repplier

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. - Langston Hughes

Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of our superiority to all that befalls us. - Romain Gary

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought. - Lin Yutang

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts. - Sarah Silverman

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde

I don't think it's possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor. - Christopher Hitchens

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. - Jennifer Jones

You may not be able to change a situation, but with humor you can change your attitude about it. - Allen Klein

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me. - Chevy Chase

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing. - Max Irons

I gave my young nephew a book for Christmas. He's spent six months looking for where to put the batteries. - Milton Berle

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. - Henry Ward Beecher

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. - Lana Turner

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? - Frank Colby

There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor. - George Jean Nathan

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. - Kahlil Gibran

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. - Horace Walpole

Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there. - Sergio Aragones

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. - Criss Jami

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end, came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever. - Plato

Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. - E.B. White