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1. "A laugh is a smile with a soundtrack."
Other categories: Optimism and Hope -:- Wit and Humor
2. "A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it."
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
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
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
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"
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
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
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
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
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."
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."
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
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