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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

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

Jean de La Bruyere
French moralist (1645 - 1696)

We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

C. S. Lewis
English essayist & juvenile novelist (1898 - 1963)

I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry

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Quotations by unknown authors

When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
Chinese philosopher (604 BC - 531 BC)

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron
English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824)

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

George Santayana, Dialogues in Limbo (1925) ch. 3
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

Dame Edna Everage, In a television interview with Joan Rivers
Australian Comedian (character of Barry Humphries) (1934 - )

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

Lord Byron
English poet & satirist (1788 - 1824)

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

May Sarton

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882)

It is pleasing to God whenever you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

Martin Luther
German religious reformer (1483 - 1546)

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

Osho, My Way: The Way of The White Clouds

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

Jane Austen, from a letter to her niece, November 18, 1814
English novelist (1775 - 1817)

A good laugh is sunshine in a house.

William Makepeace Thackeray
English novelist (1811 - 1863)

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting
Czechoslovakian novelist (1929 - )

Blessed is he who has has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained.

Shirley MacLaine
US movie actress (1934 - )

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