
“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”
Source: Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me
“Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.”
“It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
Journal entry (October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Context: When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Context: The muffled thunder of dialogue comes through the walls, then a chorus of laughter. Then more thunder. Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.
“Building castles in the air, 36 and making yourself a laughing-stock.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 31.