Laughter Quotes - Page 38

• They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

  Ernest Dowson

  Hate, Thinking, Long

  'Vitae Summa Brevis'

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• Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
  Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
  Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
  Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
  Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
  Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
  Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
  Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

  George Meredith

  Song, Sunset, Like Love

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh.

  Arthur Miller

  Heart, Laughing, Comedian

  Arthur Miller (2012). “Timebends: A Life”, p.591, A&C Black

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• The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams.

  Desmond Morris

  Teenager, Idols, Youth

  Desmond Morris (1967). “The Naked Ape”

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• The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

  Hannah Arendt

  Enemy, Way, Authority

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.154, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins.

  Edmond de Goncourt

  Laughing, Mind, Sound

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• A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.

  Sean O'Casey

  Echoes, Laughing, Loud

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• Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

  Sean O'Casey

  Men, Hue, Glitter

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• Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

  Maureen Howard

  Laughing, Soul, Battle

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• Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Balls, Life Is

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• If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.

  Vaclav Havel

  Faces, Problem, Dramatic

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• The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

  Rod Parsley

  Church, Looks, World

  Rod Parsley (2009). “Culturally Incorrect: How Clashing Worldviews Affect Your Future”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Come to me. Are you lost? I can see another way from where I live. The heart can see a path that's out of sight to the head-a path you'll surely overlook, left alone on your lofty perch up there, too distracted by your world to see the real world where I live. I live on the level of laughter, tears, and-yes-prayer.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Prayer, Real, Heart

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• Give humanity hope and it will dare and suffer joyfully, not counting the cost - hope with laughter on her banner and on her face the fresh beauty of morning.

  John Elof Boodin

  Hope, Morning, Giving

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• Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.

  Lord Byron

  Philosophy, Medicine, Laughing

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• We know the degree of refinement in people by the matter they laugh at and the ring of the laugh.

  George Meredith

  People, Laughing, Degrees

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• I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Pain, World, Lovable

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.193, Oxford University Press

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• Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspiration, Pride, People

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• Humor is a bit like Mary Poppins' sugar-it helps the medicine go down. A little bit of humor allows people to think about very difficult subjects.

  James Fadiman

  Thinking, Medicine, People

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• There are times for all of us when all the laughter seems to be gone, but we should not permit these periods to last too long. When we've lost our sense of humor, there isn't very much left. We become ridiculous. We must then go to war against the whole world, and that's a war we cannot win.

  Earl Nightingale

  War, Winning, Long

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2015). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• If there is not laughter in intimacy, it becomes heavy, burdensome, and dull. At my best moments, the love dialogue I try to carry on with You each day is comic-what could be more comic than a human addressing the Ground of Being as an intimate? It's a kind of blasphemy that I dare because you have called for it, and that is pretty humorous, too.

  Andrew Greeley

  Humorous, Trying, Each Day

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• Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter. Longchenpa Let's stuff our eyes with wonder, let's live as if we'd drop dead in ten seconds. Let's see the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Rest In Peace, Eye

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• Switch on and keep on in yourself the cheerful buttons... Those marked Joy, Laughter, Happiness, Love, Passion for life, Gratitude for life.

  Robert Muller

  Happiness, Gratitude, Attitude

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• A wise person laughs and smiles through the eyes. . . . The smile and laughter through the eyes influence people tremendously. No energy leaks if you smile through the eyes.

  Sivananda

  Smile, Wise, Eye

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• Babies should enjoy the freedom to vocalize whether it be in church, a public meeting place, during a movie, or after hours when the lights are out. They have not yet learned that joy and laughter have to last a lifetime and must be conserved.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.46, Open Road Media

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