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1. "A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."

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Other categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Wit and Humor

2. "A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it."

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Other categories: Sin and Conscience

3. "Laughter is an instant vacation."

Milton Berle

Other categories: Various

4. "The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it."

Ellen Glasgow, "The Woman Within"

Other categories: Peace and War

5. "Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind."

Mason Cooley, "City Aphorisms"

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

6. "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

Anthony Burgess

7. "It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort; it's not the sort of comfort they supply there."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Letters of C. S. Lewis"

Other categories: Happiness

8. "Be thankful for the smallest blessing, and you will deserve to receive greater."

Thomas a Kempis, "The Imitation Of Christ"

Other categories: Happiness

9. "Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."

Clarence Irving Lewis, "That Hideous Strength"

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Pain and Tears

10. "Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Success and Fame

11. "I get little enjoyment out of women, more out of alcohol, most out of ideas."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Prejudices"

Other categories: Health and Alcohol -:- Woman and Man

12. "I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Other categories: Wit and Humor

13. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Helen Keller

14. "Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."

Socrates

Other categories: Life and Death

15. "We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness."

Pierre Corneille, "The Cid"

Other categories: Success and Fame

16. "Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy."

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

17. "In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."

John Burroughs

18. "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."

Mark Twain, "Following the Equator"

19. "The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover."

Joseph Addison, "Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories..."

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

20. "Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow."

Honoré De Balzac

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

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21. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Other categories: Life and Death

22. "It's such an act of optimism to get through a day and enjoy it and laugh and do all that without thinking about death. What spirit human beings have!"

Gilda Radner

Other categories: Optimism and Hope

23. "The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed."

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

24. "In summer, the song sings itself."

William Carlos Williams

Other categories: Nature and Animals

25. "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

Other categories: Life and Death

26. "For every joy there is a price to be paid."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

27. "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows."

Helen Keller

28. "Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys."

Jewish proverb

Other categories: Trust

29. "Sorrow is the child of too much joy."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

30. "Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

Swedish proverb

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

31. "The woman cries before the wedding and the man after."

Polish proverb

Other categories: Marriage -:- Woman and Man

32. "A good laugh is sunshine in the house."

William Makepeace Thackeray

33. "Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Arthur Koestler

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

34. "Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

Leo Buscaglia

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

35. "Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning."

Sandra Bullock

Other categories: Various

36. "No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish."

Kin Hubbard

Other categories: Various

37. "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."

Erma Bombeck

Other categories: Youth and Age

38. "If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give."

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39. "A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart."

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40. "Worry is interest paid on a trouble before it is due."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge)

41. "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Other categories: Pain and Tears

42. "A smile is a curve that sets things straight."

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Other categories: Various

43. "The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Ayn Rand

Other categories: Life and Death -:- Manners and Ethics

44. "A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when they is counting their blessings."

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Other categories: Happiness

45. "Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves."

Emily Brontë

Other categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia

46. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot."

Walter Bagehot

Other categories: Success and Fame

47. "You are never fully dressed until you wear a smile."

Martin Charnin

48. "Heaven is where the police are British, the mechanics German, the cooks are French, the lovers Italian, and all is organize by the Swiss."

Eliane Kirchner

Other categories: Happiness

49. "A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart."

Rhonda Marlow

50. "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel."

Horace Walpole

Other categories: Life and Death

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