A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. – Author unknown, from an editorial in New-York Tribune, quoted in Quotations for

The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. РS̩bastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort), translated from French

Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus