. To Live By. 19

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. 

Cornelia Funke

. To Live By. 18

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh. 

Robert Bolt 

. To Live By. 17

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel 

. To Live By. 16

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Stewart Alsop 

. To Live By. 15

Nobody ever died of laughter. 

Max Beerbohm 

. To Live By. 14

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God. 

Sean Connery

. To Live By. 13

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. 

Laura Ingalls Wilder 

. To Live By. 12

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on. 

Bob Newhart

. To Live By. 11

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Lord Chesterfield

What a sad life he must have lead? 

. To Live By. 10

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. 

Victor Borge

. To Live By. 9

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

Lucille Ball

. To Live By. 8

I just love listening to the laughter. 

Simon Pegg

. To Live By. 7

When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.
Helen Hayes

. To Live By. 7

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes

. To Live By. 6

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. 

Helen Hayes 

. To Live By. 5

The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. 

Helen Hayes

. To Live By. 4

Stardom can be a gilded slavery. 

Helen Hayes

. To Live By. 3

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings. 

Helen Hayes 

. To Live By. 2

Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. 

Yakov Smirnoff 

. To Live By.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Charlie Chaplin