"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least."
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more."
"Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in."
"Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you."
"Ten years from now you'll laugh at whatever's stressing you out today. So why not laugh now?"
"A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life."
"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
"I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him"
"The difference between sex and death is, death you can do alone and nobody laughs at you."
"It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth."
"Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are a laughing-stock; and such laws, instead of restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, serve rather to heighten them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata [we always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us]."
"If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like."
"Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being."
"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."
"Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow! But it means that they have the ability to deal with it"
"The fact that you touched somebody's soul or made them laugh-that's a wonderful thing."
"I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live."
"Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh ."
"I am satisfied ... I see, dance, laugh, sing."
"To laugh is to live profoundly."