Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.
-- Eddie Murphy

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
-- Stephen King fromHearts in Atlantis.

Laughter is higher than all pain.
-- Elbert Hubbard

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
-- Victor Borge

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
-- W.C. Fields

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

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
-- Will Rogers