Laughter Quotes - Page 6

• Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

  Victor Hugo

  Happiness, Smile, Joy

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• He is not always at ease who laughs.

  Dante Alighieri

  Laughing, Ease

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• The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Laughing, He Man

  Alexander Pope (2008). “An Essay on Man: Moral Essays and Satires: Easyread Large Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Men, Creatures, Power Of Laughter

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• Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Silly, Men

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.145, OUP Oxford

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• Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.

  Helen M. Luke

  Reality, Men, Opposites

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• I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

  Wilson Mizner

  Laughing, Judging, Judgement

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Happiness, Smile, Fear

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

  Rumi

  Happiness, Death, Spiritual

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• From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Happiness, Witty

  Dust jacket for S. J. Perelman, Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge (1929). This is described in Show Magazine, Nov. 1961.

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• And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Happiness, Truth, Inspirational Life

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• Does anyone remember laughter?

  Robert Plant

  Laughing, Heartless, Doe

  "Gass And Black Of Tenacious D Play Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 1, 2014.

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• Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

  Peter Ustinov

  Funny, Creativity, Humor

  Peter Ustinov (1969). “The wit of Peter Ustinov”

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• Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

  Judith Viorst

  Happiness, Friends, Wine

  Judith Viorst (2010). “Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Happiness, Sympathy, Remember You

  "Fictional character: Reverend Robert Alden". TV Series "Little House on the Prairie" ("Remember Me: Part 1", 1975), www.imdb.com. 1974–1983.

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• It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Heart, Laughing

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• Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

  Will Durst

  Happiness, Fear, Joy

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• As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.

  Laozi

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

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• Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.

  Lady Margaret Sackville

  Tragedy, Young, Haggard

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• We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

  Rosario Castellanos

  Laughing, Firsts, Evidence

  Rosario Castellanos, Maureen Ahern (1988). “A Rosario Castellanos Reader”, p.258, University of Texas Press

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• It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

  Eleanor Farjeon

  Evil, Laughing, Use

  Eleanor Farjeon (1920). “Gypsy and Ginger”

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

  Rene Descartes

  Happiness, Wisdom, Self

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• Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

  Carol Channing

  Happiness, Appreciation, Joy

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• Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Happiness, Joy, Privilege

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• He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

  William Blake

  Life, Happiness, Happy

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.6, Wordsworth Editions

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