
“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
Variant: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Source: UnWholly
“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
Variant: We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
“You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.”
Also sometimes attributed to Kurt Cobain
Variant: You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.
“Sometimes it happens with me that I start laughing and just can't stop.”
Quotes By Salman
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3mgQ3v1Jyw
“What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourselves!”
Act V, sc. viii
The Inspector General (1836)
“Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?”
Source: One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
About getting her first laughs, during a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
From an interview with the Telegraph, "Seriously funny."
“I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.”
Variant: I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land