Laughter Quotes - Page 5

• Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It's all we've got.

  Ricky Gervais

  Inspirational, Positive, Friends

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jun 17, 2014

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• Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Happiness, Humor, Joy

  "Chance Acquaintances". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1952.

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• Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

  Mark Twain

  Blow, Rags, Atoms

  "The Mysterious Stranger". Book by Mark Twain, 1916.

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• In a few Zen monasteries, every monk has to start his morning with laughter, and has to end his night with laughter - the first thing and the last thing! You try it. . . For no reason! Because there is no reason. Simply, you are again there, still alive - it is a miracle!

  Rajneesh

  Morning, Night, Simply You

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• Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

  Bob Newhart

  Happiness, Smile, Moving On

  Bob Newhart (2006). “I shouldn't even be doing this: and other things that strike me as funny”

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• Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughing

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• Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Happiness, Smile

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• The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Joy, Heartless

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• There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Hurt, Pain

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.139, Open Road Media

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• Wit is the key, I think, to anybody's heart, because who doesn't like to laugh?

  Julia Roberts

  Happiness, Heart, Thinking

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• I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

  Lucille Ball

  Happiness, Joy, Way

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• Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Attitude, Laughing, Finals

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

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• The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Animal, Joy

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book IX, (16), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

  Alice Meynell

  Happiness, Joy, Heartless

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.15, eBookIt.com

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• Low gurgling laughter, as sweet As the swallow's song i' the South, And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet By the curves of a perfect mouth.

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Song, Sweet, Curves

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1882). “Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne”

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• To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.

  Pliny the Elder

  Men, Laughing, Miracle

  Pliny the Elder (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Pliny the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.392, Delphi Classics

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• Each day brings its own colours to be chosen, mixed, pigments of joy, happy moments, smiles and laughter.... And which will you choose? For 'Life' is choice.

  John McLeod

  Joy, Choices, Each Day

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• A good time to laugh is any time you can.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Laughing, Good Times, Have A Laugh

  Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”

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• There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

  Niels Bohr

  Laughing, Serious, Quantum Mechanics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Laughter is by definition healthy.

  Doris Lessing

  Life, Healing, Healthy

  "The Summer Before the Dark". Book by Doris Lessing, 1973.

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• Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Noise, Inarticulate, Distortion

  Ambrose Bierce (1958). “The Devil's Dictionary: A Selection of the Bitter Definitions of Ambrose Bierce”, p.100, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Nobody ever died of laughter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

  Fred Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Happiness

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• Laughter is America's most important export.

  Walt Disney

  America, Patriotism, Important

  "The Quotable Walt Disney". Book by Disney Book Group, 2001.

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