Laughter Quotes - Page 23

• No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

  Solon

  Happiness, Men, Joy

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• We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Happiness, Memories, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Happiness, Joy, Curious

  "Roman Fountain".

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• All you earnest young men out to save the world. . . please, have a laugh.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Laughing, World

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• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us because we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, celebrating a reunion. . . . Just as the extreme of pain meets sensual pleasure, and the extreme of perversion borders on mystical energy, so too the extreme of banality allows us to catch a glimpse of the Sublime.

  Umberto Eco

  Pain, Moving, Talking

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• The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Girl, Believe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Frustration, Thinking, Laughing

  "Palm Sunday". Kurt Vonnegut's sermon at St. Clement's Church in New York City (1980), originally published in The Nation as "Hypocrites You Always Have With You", 1980.

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• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Land, Rivers

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Four be the things I am wiser to know:
  Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without:
  Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  Three be the things I shall never attain:
  Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
  Three be the things I shall have till I die:
  Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hope, Eye, Envy

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

  Horace

  Joy, Love And Laughter, Without Love

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• Cicero is dead! Cicero is born! The laughter has filled me, filled me so very completely. I am the laughter. I am the jester. The soul that has served as my constant companion for so long has breached the veil of the Void finally and forever. It is now in me. It is me. The world has seen the last of Cicero the man. Behold Cicero, Fool of Hearts - laughter incarnate!

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Heart, Men, Long

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• There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Real, Humor

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• Laughter can bring a new perspective.

  Christopher Durang

  Happiness, Perspective, Joy

  "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

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• Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy. You can’t laugh and be angry, you can’t laugh and feel sad, you can’t laugh and feel envious.

  Bel Kaufman

  Sadness, Laughing, Healthy

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• God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know?

  Rick Moody

  Howl, Plans, Knows

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• Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Headache, Champagne

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• I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me,
  I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.

  Amanda Palmer

  Bother, Glad, Stills

  Amanda Palmer (2015). “The Art of Asking: Wie ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und lernte, mir helfen zu lassen”, p.126, BASTEI LÜBBE

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• A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

  Paul Laurence Dunbar

  Sleep, Laughing, Joy

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Joanne M. Braxton (1993). “The Collected Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar”, p.8, University of Virginia Press

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• What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.

  Erma Bombeck

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• Don't evaluate your life in terms of achievements, trivial or monumental, along the way... Instead, wake up and appreciate everything you encounter along your path. Enjoy the flowers that are there for your pleasure. Tune in to the sunrise, the little children, the laughter, the rain, and the birds. Drink it all in... there is no way to happiness; happiness is the way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Rain, Flower

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• In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

  Robert McKee

  Comedy, Argument, Settling

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Play, Dating, Silence

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• If you go to bed at night and think about your day and you haven't laughed very much, then you must jump out of bed and go do something fun.

  Marlo Morgan

  Fun, Night, Thinking

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• The last time I saw Paris, her heart was warm and gay, I heard the laughter of her heart in every street café.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Heart, Gay, Paris

  "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (song) (1940)

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• There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

  Dar Williams

  Children, Pregnancy, Kids

  "Seeking a 'Better' world". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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