Laughter Quotes - Page 11

• The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

  Pablo Picasso

  Children, Adults, Half

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

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Humor, Joy

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

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• Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Hate, Laughing

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• I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

  Larry David

  Happiness, People, Joy

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". Interview, www.laughfactory.com. April, 1994.

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• I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Happiness, Reality, Games

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• Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

  Bobby Sands

  Happiness, Children, Revenge

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

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• What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

  Agnes Repplier

  Dust, Laughing, Batteries

  Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.

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• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

  Mason Cooley

  Literature, Sometimes, Carefree

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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• I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Love, Children, Sleep

  Richard Watson Gilder (1900). “Five Books of Song”

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• Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Happiness, Humor

  In 'Observer' 13 March 1955

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• The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

  Robert Burns

  Laughing, Chorus, Ready

  Robert Burns, P. Austin Nuttall (1866). “The poetical works of Robert Burns”, p.92

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• Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Laughing, Doubt, Territory

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• The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.

  Lenny Bruce

  Art, Fake, Comedy

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• He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.

  Jean Racine

  Friday, Sunday, Laughing

  "Les Plaideurs" by Jean Racine, I. 1, June 20, 1664.

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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, Humor, Emotional

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

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• You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Relationship, Humor

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• A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

  Phyllis Diller

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Happiness, Believe, Laughing

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• I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth."

  Quincy Jones

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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• And keep a sense of humor. It doesn't mean you have to tell jokes. If you can't think of anything else, when you're my age, take off your clothes and walk in front of a mirror. I guarantee you'll get a laugh.

  Art Linkletter

  Happiness, Mean, Thinking

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

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Mirth, Faculty

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

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• Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Smile, Joy

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