Ecclesiastes 3:4
“...A time to laugh”
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H. G. Wells
“The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.”
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Mark Twain
“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”
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Erma Bombeck
“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”
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Colette
“Total absence of humor renders life impossible.”
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Max Beerbohm
"Nobody ever died of laughter."
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Victor Borge
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
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Larry Gelbart
"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
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Elsa Maxwell
"Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can."
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Agnes Repplier
"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh."
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Mark Twain
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
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Jay Leno
"You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh."
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John Masefield
"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last."
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Joseph Addison
"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."
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Koran
"He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh."
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Lord Byron
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
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Mohandas Gandhi
“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
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Edward De Bono
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”
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Mary Hirsch
“Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.”
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Langston Hughes
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
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Jonathan Swift
“Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.”
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Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."
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A. Whitney Brown
"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you."
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Buddy Hackett
“As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.”
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Michael Pritchard
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
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Bob Newhart
"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
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Agnes Repplier
"Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals."
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Will Rogers
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you."
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Author Unknown
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable."
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Edward W. Howe
"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
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Erma Bombeck
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
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Harry S. Truman
“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”
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Langston Hughes
“Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.”
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
“A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”
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Romain Cary
Humor is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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Lou Holtz
“The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.”
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William James
“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
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Henry Ward Beecher
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
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Bill Cosby
“You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.”
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Francis Bacon
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
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Gordon B. Hinckley
"We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time."
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Jimmy Buffett
“Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
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Bill Cosby
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
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Mark Twain
"The researches of many commentators have already thrown much darkness on the subject, and it is probable that if they continue, we shall soon know nothing at all about it."
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Hugh B. Brown
“A wholesome sense of humor will be a safety valve that will enable you to apply the lighter touch to heavy problems and to learn some lessons in problem solving that "sweat and tears" often fail to dissolve.”
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