“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”

“Today was very sad,
and even if tomorrow, I cry,
someday I will be able to laugh
and remember our time together.
How many seasons must pass,
in this, our finite existence?
If we live in the "now",
what will we find?”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

“It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”

George Burns (1896–1996) American comedian, actor, and writer

“Look who's laughing now that you've wasted
How many years and you've barely even tasted
Anything remotely close to
Everything you've boasted about
Look who's crying now.”

Jack Johnson (musician) (1975) American musician

“New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking, they can make you laugh.”

P. C. Cast (1960) American writer

“I have always been a laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres… I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laughter to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

“Good friends in hard times and hard friends in good times.”

Max Sparber (1968)

“Ever make fun of someone so much that you feel you should thank them for all the good times you've had? I've got a midget friend, an albino friend, and another friend who thinks "Lord of the Rings" is real. Together we call ourselves "the Unfuckables."”

Dave Attell (1965) comedian