"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people."
-Victor Borge
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-George Bernard Shaw
"Nobody ever died of laughter."
-Max Beerbohm
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable."
-Anon.
"The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."
-Sebastian R. N. Chamfort
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
-Mark Twain
"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."
-Ed Howe
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-Ben Franklin
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
-Helen Keller
"People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be."
-Abraham Lincoln
"Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times."
-Anon.
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-Robert Anthony
"The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."
-Allan K. Chalmers
"Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy."
-Cynthia Nelms
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
-Scottish Proverb
"Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society."
-William Makepeace Thackeray
"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
-Mark Twain
"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."
-Henry Miller
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
-Anne Sexton
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