Laughter Quotes - Page 16

• The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.

  Democritus

  Ideas, Roots, People

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• That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

  Desmond Tutu

  Justice, Texture, Lessons

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• Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Delight, Mischievous

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• We should remind ourselves that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without touching, and sometimes it represents a closer tie than touching ever could.

  Gina Barreca

  Ties, Laughing, Touching

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• Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Powerful, Light, Laughing

  Isobelle Carmody (1996). “The Gathering”, Puffin

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• There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recognition - which means seeing things you're familiar with and laughing at yourself. But there's also hysterical laughter - a way of dealing with the things we see that upset us.

  Michael Haneke

  Mean, Two, Laughing

  "No pain, no gain" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2001.

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• When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

  David Ogilvy

  Dog, Fun, People

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• I think laughter is a sacred act.

  Tom Shadyac

  Thinking, Sacred

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• Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it.

  Dan Jenkins

  Cutting, Size, Trouble

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “LIFE ITS OWN SELF”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

  Robin Williams

  Sea, Medicine, People

  Source: www.rd.com

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• I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Native American, Thinking, Culture

  "The Humanist Interview with Gloria Steinem" by Jennifer Bardi, thehumanist.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Laughing, Peculiar, Able

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• Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

  Joseph Addison

  Soul, Mind, Lasts

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.294

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• I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mankind, Regeneration, Convinced

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2012). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.470, JHU Press

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• I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Success, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1068, Library of America

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• Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

  June Jordan

  Success, Determination, Motivation

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• Don't take life too seriously. Have fun in your life. And, never forget my mantra - love and laughter supersede all!

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Life And Love, Fun, Never Forget

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• How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Shoes, Laughing

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Life, Sweet, Song

  Henry Van Dyke, “If All The Skies”

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• Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, - and done a hundred things You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air.

  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Military, Clouds, Flying High

  In K. Rhys More Poems from the Forces (1943) "High Flight"

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• Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.

  Douglas Horton

  Happiness, Smile, Eye

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• People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

  Milton A. Lee

  Smile, Determination, Clothes

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• It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Happiness, Eye, Joy

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• Joy is not in things; it is in us.

  Richard Wagner

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

  Eileen Caddy

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

  Eileen Caddy (2012). “God Spoke to Me”, p.16, Jaico Publishing House

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