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Mark Twain

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Topic: Laughter
Location: Grand Cayman
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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More on Laughter

Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart, don’t know how to laugh either. — Golda Meir

It is a wise man who can laugh at his own jokes. — Persian Proverb

Humor Laughter Wisdom

Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. — Irish Proverb

Health Laughter

There is little success where there is little laughter. — Andrew Carnegie

Laughter Success

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde

Friendship Laughter

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

› Charlie Chaplin

Determine to live life with flair and laughter. — Maya Angelou

Determination Laughter

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. — Arnold Glasow

Health Laughter Optimism

Humor is reason gone mad. — Groucho Marx

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. — E. E. Cummings

He who climbs upon the highest mountains laughs at all tragedies, real or imaginary. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Imagination Laughter Work

A day without laughter is a day wasted. — Charlie Chaplin

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Never eat more than you can lift.

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If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx

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He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at. — Epictetus

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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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