Laughter Quotes - Page 10

• So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

  James Clavell

  Fear, Laughing, Bulls

  "Noble House". Book by James Clavell, April 1981.

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• God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sorrow, Tears, Despair

  Leigh Hunt (1853). “The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty”, p.62

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• Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Funny, Humor, Exertion

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• Laughter is very infectious, and why it should be so is a most interesting neurological problem. But it also has other, more physiological, benefits. Apparently it boosts the immune system, reduces stress hormones, massages the heart and diaphragm and engenders a 'feel good' factor.

  Semir Zeki

  Stress, Heart, Interesting

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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, Humor

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• We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Song, Pain

  "To a Skylark" l. 88 (1819)

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• Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Happiness, Prayer, Joy

  Reinhold Niebuhr, (2013). “Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow”, p.72, Read Books Ltd

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• Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

  John Milton

  Sports, Nymphs, And Love

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.59

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• Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

  Jasper Carrott

  Happiness, Medicine, Joy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Laughing, Forgiving, Deals

  Caroline Llewellyn (1994). “Life Blood”

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• Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

  Barry Cryer

  Funny, Laughing, Frogs

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• Laughter is higher than all pain.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Pain, Higher

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• Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Thinking, Legends, Strange

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  Victor Borge

  Happiness, Joy, Tears

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• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Smile, Twilight

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• Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

  Norman Cousins

  Healthy, Jogging, Way

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.34, Open Road Media

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• One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Smile, Healing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Royal truths”, p.241

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• Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double in extreme hilarity trying to get that rear-end exuberance forward into the main scene of action. What puts man on a higher stage of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Dog, Men

  "Enjoyment of Laughter".

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• Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

  Agnes Repplier

  Happiness, Spring, Joy

  Agnes Repplier (1936). “In Pursuit of Laughter ...”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I have known sorrow - therefore I
  May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
  Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
  And know not laughter's worth.
  I have known laughter - therefore I
  May sorrow with you far more tenderly
  Than those who never guess how sad a thing
  Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.

  Theodosia Garrison

  Heart, Laughing, Suffering

  "Knowledge". Poem by Theodosia Garrison. "Something to Live By". Book by Dorothea S. Kopplin, 2016.

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• Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

  Catullus

  Silly

  "Carmina". XXXIX, 16,

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• Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

  Joan Lunden

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Anger

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• To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

  William Arthur Ward

  Inspirational, Attitude, Mistake

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• Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

  Norman Cousins

  Positive, Powerful, Way

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