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And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.

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

Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known. They that love mirth, let them heartily drink, 'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

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

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.

Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

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 might of been.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

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

Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.