Laughter Quotes - Page 25

• Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Relaxation, Relax

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• For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Creativity, Cherish Every Moment

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• Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter.

  Michael R. Burch

  Political, Grace, Saving

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• Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Inspirational, Humor, Sickness

  Phyllis Bottome (1943). “Survival”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

  Art Buchwald

  Inspirational, Laughing, Made

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• There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

  Brian Andreas

  Children, Noise, Imagine

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• Humor is an antidote to isolation.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Isolation, Antidote

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter.

  Jean Cocteau

  Silence, Black, Violent

  "Two Screenplays: The Blood of a Poet. The Testament of Orpheus".

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• I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kindness, Generosity, Cups

  "Muhammad Ali...Recipe for Life". www.youtube.com. July 24, 2007.

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• Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory.

  Alfred Jarry

  Discovery, Born, Contradictory

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• Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

  Stan Smith

  Gay, Pox

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• In my own prejudice.. I would have of a poet...whose worlds would not be too esoteric..fond of talking....capable of pity and laughter..appreciative of womem..involved in personal relationships...susceptible to physical impressions

  Louis MacNeice

  Talking, Prejudice, World

  "Modern Poetry: A Personal Essay". Book by Louis MacNeice, 1938.

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• I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

  Patti LaBelle

  Happiness, Smile, Joy

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Aug 30, 2012

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• Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Art, Joy

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• Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

  Chuck Jones

  Happiness, Joy, Strange

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

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• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between, Vices

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• I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.

  Clement Attlee

  Fall, Ideas, Benches

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• The fountain of youth for me, let’s see…I guess it’s exercise, healthy diet, lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex — yes, sex, we need that as human beings. It’s healthy, it’s natural, it’s what we are here to do!

  Cameron Diaz

  Sex, Exercise, Water

  "Cameron Diaz: 'Lots of Sex' Is My 'Fountain of Youth'". U.K Vogue Interview, www.usmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.

  C. S. Lewis

  Roaring, Study, Moments

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.57, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• What can be considered human emotions? Surely not only lyricism, sadness, tragedy? Doesn't laughter also have a claim to that lofty title? I want to fight for the legitimate right of laughter in "serious" music.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Sadness, Fighting, Tragedy

  "Sovetskoye Iskusstvo", quoted in "Shostakovich: A Life", transl. by Laurel Fay (2000) p. 77, November 5, 1934.

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• Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

  J. C. Ryle

  Followers, World, Rewards

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of John".

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• Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. There’s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the "Aha." Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in - the one that we think is reality.

  Alan Kay

  Art, Jobs, Creativity

  "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.

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• I think that laughter and smiling are some of the best antidotes to ageing that you could possibly have. In general, I pretty much think of myself as still being about 5.

  Demi Moore

  Thinking, Ageing, Antidote

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• Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

  Stephen King

  Self, Laughing, Hurricanes

  Stephen King, Michael Whelan (2004). “The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower”, p.676, Simon and Schuster

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• Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves.

  Robin Sharma

  Heart, Laughing, Soul

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.185, Jaico Publishing House

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