“Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game”
Will Durant
“He is not laughed at that laughs at himself first”
Thomas Fuller
“If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute -- I've got to have them.”
Ken Dodd
“I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all.”
Abraham Lincoln
“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that”
William Shakespeare
“I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.”
Will Rogers
“I am quick to laugh at everything, so as not to have to cry”
P.A. Caron de Beaumarchais