Laughter
"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
- George Gordon (Lord Byron), 1788-1824, British poet
"He who laughs, lasts!"
- Mary Pettibone Poole, 1938- , author
"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."
- Charlie Chaplin, 1889-1977, British comic actor and filmmaker
"If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed."
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1741-1794, French writer, journalist and playwright
"You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at — yourself."
- Ethel Barrymore, 1879-1959, American actress
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
- Bob Newhart 1929 - , American comedian and television actor
"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
- Colette, 1873 - 1954, French novelist
"Laughter is a form of internal jogging. It moves your internal organs around. It enhances respiration. It is an igniter of great expectations."
- Norman Cousins, 1912 - 1990, US editor & essayist, in his acclaimed book, "Anatomy of an Illness"
"With laughter, you can get people thinking in a different track. When you're thinking positively, you're open to laughter. When you're open to laughter, you're open to other suggestions. You're willing to look at something in a different way. . . .It's a feeling of I can . . . Laughter doesn't cost anything it's free. You should look for it every day."
- Sid Caesar, 1922- , American comedian and actor
"One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter."
- Joseph Addison 1672-1719, British essayist, poet and statesman
"To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect."
Honore De Balzac, 1799-1850, French novelist
"The best blush to use is laughter: It put roses in your cheeks and in your soul."
- Linda Knight, Canadian entrepreneur
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