Gift Of Laughter Quotes

• I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Laughter, Pain, World

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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  Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Happiness, Smile

  Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Laughter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

  Scaramouche ch. 1 (1921)

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• A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Good Morning, Happiness

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• Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Smile, Laughter

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Feb 03, 2015

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• The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

  Mort Walker

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "The Harper Book of Quotations". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

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• If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Funny, Laughter

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• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Laughter, Humor

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

  Bob Newhart

  Happiness, Smile, Moving On

  Bob Newhart (2006). “I shouldn't even be doing this: and other things that strike me as funny”

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• If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

  Martin Luther

  Laughter, Humor, Laughing

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• With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers.

  Bill Cosby

  Laughter, Blow, Worst Situation

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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• I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

  Buddy Hackett

  Laughter, People, Laughing

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• Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter.

  Elie Wiesel

  Laughter, Mistake, Men

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• God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Laughter, Blessed, Men

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• Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

  Adolf Hitler

  Laughter, Joy, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Believe, Grateful

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.115, New York Review of Books

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• ...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Love, Smile, Laughter

  Gloria Vanderbilt (1986). “Once Upon a Time: A True Story”, Fawcett Books

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