"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." - W. H. Auden

"Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child." - Henry Ward Beecher

"To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity." - Bolingbroke

"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species." - Thomas Carlyle

"Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more." - Giovanni G. Casanova

"There is nothing sillier than a silly laugh." - Catullus, Carmina

"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one." - Christian Morgenstern

"What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!" - Agnes Repplier

"To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts." - Frank Tyger

"Laffing iz the sensation ov pheeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot." - JOSH BILLINGS, Josh Billing's Comical Lexicon

"The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed." - BASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT, Maximes et pensées

"What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . . form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too." - NORMAN COUSINS, Anatomy of an Illness

"Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable." - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, Maxims and Reflections

"Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." - THOMAS HOBBES, On Human Nature

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Borge, Victor

"If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane." - Buffet, Jimmy

"Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma." - Casseresm, Benjamin de

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." - Glason, Arnold

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." - Unknown

"Rivendell household rule #2: If you can't laugh at yourself, someone else is going to do it for you, and you're not going to enjoy it nearly as much." - Unknown