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Quotes about Laughter

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529 Written Quotes

Laughter is an instant vacation. Votes: 6

Milton Berle

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Votes: 6

Victor Hugo

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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Votes: 5

Kurt Vonnegut

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Votes: 5

Robert Fulghum

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Laughter is the language of the soul. Votes: 4

Pablo Neruda

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A day without laughter is a day wasted. Votes: 4

Charlie Chaplin

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Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. Votes: 4

Walt Disney

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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. Votes: 4

Josh Billings

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Laughter means sympathy. Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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Laughter always forgives. Votes: 3

Martin Amis

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Laughter drives shouting away. Votes: 3

Indra Devi

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Laughter is carbonated holiness. Votes: 3

Anne Lamott

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Laughter is carbonated holiness." Votes: 3

Anne Lamott

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Laughter scares off lust. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Laughter is inner jogging. Votes: 3

Norman Cousins

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Laughter is God's blessing. Votes: 3

Joseph Prince

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Laughter is poison to fear. Votes: 3

George R. R. Martin

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Laughter has no foreign accent. Votes: 3

Paul B. Lowney

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Laughter is therapy-an instant vacation. Votes: 3

Bob Hope

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Laughter is by definition healthy. Votes: 3

Doris Lessing

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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful Votes: 3

Wendell Berry

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Laughter relaxes. And relaxation is spiritual. Votes: 3

Rajneesh

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion. Votes: 3

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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Laughter is the best creative medicine. Votes: 3

John Cleese

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Laughter survives... it has to survive. Votes: 3

George Lopez

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Laughter destroys any divisions between people. Votes: 3

John Cleese

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Laughter is more serious than tears. Votes: 3

Toni Morrison

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Laughter can bring a new perspective. Votes: 3

Christopher Durang

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Laughter is a force for democracy. Votes: 3

John Cleese

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Laughter ispleasant, butthe exertion istoomuchfor me. Votes: 3

Thomas Love Peacock

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Laughter is higher than all pain. Votes: 3

Elbert Hubbard

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Laughter is no enemy to learning Votes: 3

Walt Disney

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Laughter is the music of life. Votes: 3

William Osler

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Laughter is America's most important export. Votes: 3

Walt Disney

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Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering. Votes: 3

Deepak Chopra

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Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion. Votes: 3

Dolly Parton

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Laughter is the effervescent form of holiness. Votes: 3

Annie Lamott

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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. Votes: 3

Peter Ustinov

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Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe. Votes: 3

Kristin Chenoweth

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Laughter is the language of the heart Votes: 3

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. Votes: 3

Thomas Mann

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Laughter made you live better and longer. Votes: 3

Gail Parent

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Laughter is a form of internal jogging. Votes: 3

Norman Cousins

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Laughter is grace in its gaseous form. Votes: 3

Cathleen Falsani

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Laughter is the fireworks of the soul. Votes: 3

Josh Billings

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Laughter is eternity if joy is real. Votes: 3

Bono

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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh. Votes: 3

Tom Lehrer

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Laughter is the joyous universal evergreen of life! Votes: 3

Abraham Lincoln

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Laughter... the most civilized music in the world. Votes: 3

Peter Ustinov

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people. Votes: 3

Victor Borge

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Laughter is the best medicine, y'know, besides medicine. Votes: 3

Bo Burnham

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Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears. Votes: 3

Jack Hyles

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Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health Votes: 3

Aristotle

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Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects. Votes: 3

Arnold H. Glasow

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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Votes: 3

Yakov Smirnoff

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Laughter is the key that grace has arrived. Votes: 3

Anne Lamott

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Laughter is an important part of healthy living. Votes: 3

Matthew Moy

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Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations. Votes: 3

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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That's the quickest way to my heart: Laughter. Votes: 3

Ryan Lochte

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Laughter heals, gives solace, and is life enhancing. Votes: 3

Liz Carpenter

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Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay. Votes: 3

Stan Smith

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Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph. Votes: 3

Wyndham Lewis

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Laughter is the best medicine in the world. Votes: 3

Milton Berle

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Laughter is a bubbly, effervescent form of holiness Votes: 3

Anne Lamott

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Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations. Votes: 3

Red Skelton

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It is good to laugh. Laughter is spiritual relaxation. Votes: 3

Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche. Votes: 3

Stephen Colbert

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Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. Votes: 3

Wyndham Lewis

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Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion." (Truvey Jones) Votes: 3

Robert Harling

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature. Votes: 3

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter brings out the child in all of us. Votes: 3

Bill Cosby

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English is my second language. Laughter is my first. Votes: 3

Paul Krassner

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Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity. Votes: 3

Luis Alberto Urrea

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Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions Votes: 3

Norman Cousins

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Laughter is the best medicine...smilin g is second Votes: 3

Ian Somerhalder

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Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror. Votes: 3

Thomas M. Disch

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Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief Votes: 3

Lidia Yuknavitch

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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Votes: 3

Wavy Gravy

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Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life. Votes: 3

Diogo Morgado

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Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics. Votes: 3

Rajneesh

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Laughter is born out of the discovery of the contradictory. Votes: 3

Alfred Jarry

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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. Votes: 3

Malcolm de Chazal

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Laughter allows us to get past the fear of death. Votes: 3

Deepak Chopra

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Votes: 3

Charlie Chaplin

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Laughter attracts joy, releases negativity, and leads to miraculous cures. Votes: 3

Rhonda Byrne

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God. Votes: 3

Karl Barth

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Laughter is the best way to release tensions and fears. Votes: 3

Dick Gregory

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Laughter is the best way To make somebody's heart beat Votes: 3

Robert Holden

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Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. Votes: 3

Wyndham Lewis

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Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks. Votes: 3

Henri Bergson

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. Votes: 3

Max Eastman

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Laughter is the lightning rod of play, the eroticism of conversation. Votes: 3

Eva Hoffman

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Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Laughter - that is something very sacred especially for us Indians. Votes: 3

John Fire Lame Deer

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Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters. Votes: 3

Allen Klein

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Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Comedy can be very freeing. Laughter truly is the best medicine. Votes: 3

Christina Applegate

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Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. Votes: 3

Yogi Berra

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Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it. Votes: 3

David Mitchell

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Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage. Votes: 3

Jennifer Lee Carrell

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water. Votes: 3

Anne Rivers Siddons

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Laughter is what spills over the edge of an inspired life. Votes: 3

Mary Anne Radmacher

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Laughter is the most beautiful and beneficial therapy God ever granted humanity. Votes: 3

Charles R. Swindoll

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Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier. Votes: 3

Bill Hicks

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Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured. Votes: 3

David Gemmell

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Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything. Votes: 3

James Thurber

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Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart. Votes: 3

Mort Walker

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Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues. Votes: 3

Goswami Kriyananda

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Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love. Votes: 3

Craig Ferguson

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Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. Votes: 3

Wyndham Lewis

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Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence Votes: 3

Ted Loder

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Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it. Votes: 3

Melissa Rauch

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Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin. Votes: 3

Saint John Chrysostom

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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. Votes: 3

Wendell Berry

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Laughter and happiness is what life should be about, that's your remedy for everything. Votes: 3

Fauja Singh

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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light. Votes: 3

W. S. Merwin

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Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed. Votes: 3

Saint John Chrysostom

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Laughter is taken as a sign of strength, freedom, health, beauty, youth, and happiness. Votes: 3

Martin Grotjahn

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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer. Votes: 3

Gail Parent

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Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me. Votes: 3

Thomas Love Peacock

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A genius of comedy His talent brought joy and Laughter to all the world. Votes: 3

Oliver Hardy

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Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places! Votes: 3

Eugenia Price

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Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word. Votes: 3

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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If Words are the Lyrics, and Laughter the Melody, then a Relationship becomes a Symphony. Votes: 3

Nicholas Sparks

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Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts! Votes: 3

Wilferd Peterson

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Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts. Votes: 3

Abraham Lincoln

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Votes: 3

Thomas Carlyle

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Laughter is very young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. Votes: 3

Lady Margaret Sackville

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Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least. Votes: 3

Mark Twain

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Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard. Votes: 3

Margaret Sackville

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Laughter is a sense of proportion and a power of seeing yourself from the outside. Votes: 3

Zero Mostel

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Laughter is the most inexpensive and most effective wonder drug. Laughter is a universal medicine. Votes: 3

Bertrand Russell

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Laugh a lot. Laughter will make even the dreariest situations a whole lot more enjoyable. Votes: 3

Robert Cheeke

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Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine. Votes: 3

Jim Stovall

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Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. Votes: 3

Carol Channing

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Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans. Votes: 3

Matt Haig

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Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself. Votes: 3

Peter J. Carroll

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Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace. Votes: 3

Patricia Montandon

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Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do. Votes: 3

Kurt Vonnegut

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Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain. Votes: 3

Tim O'Brien

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Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness. Votes: 3

Isobelle Carmody

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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. Votes: 3

Henry Ward Beecher

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Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage. Votes: 3

Erma Bombeck

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Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am. Votes: 3

Emma Thompson

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Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not. Votes: 3

Robin McKinley

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Laughter is the only thing that'll cut trouble down to a size where you can talk to it. Votes: 3

Dan Jenkins

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One longs to be funny, to make people laugh. Laughter is such a sign of approval, isn't it? Votes: 3

Tom Baker

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Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart. Votes: 3

Pat Conroy

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Laughter takes the tyranny of the lies we are told and told and told and it blows them apart. Votes: 3

Kate Clinton

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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde

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To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. Votes: 2

Francoise Sagan

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. Votes: 2

Max Eastman

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can. Votes: 2

Elsa Maxwell

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Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. Votes: 2

Mark Twain

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If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane. Votes: 2

Robert Frost

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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. Votes: 2

Lord Byron

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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. Votes: 2

Victor Hugo

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There is little success where there is little laughter. Votes: 2

Andrew Carnegie

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. Votes: 2

e. e. cummings

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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. Votes: 2

Ken Kesey

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If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it. Votes: 2

Erma Bombeck

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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. Votes: 2

Anne Frank

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Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. Votes: 2

George Eliot

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May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. Votes: 2

Rumi

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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. Votes: 2

Andy Rooney

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors. Votes: 2

Norman Cousins

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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. Votes: 2

Jean Houston

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To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! Votes: 2

Charlie Chaplin

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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed. Votes: 2

Bennett Cerf

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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. Votes: 2

Erma Bombeck

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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter. Votes: 2

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. Votes: 2

Frank A. Clark

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. Votes: 2

Stephen King

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The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. Votes: 2

Virginia Woolf

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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either. Votes: 2

Wayne Dyer

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed. Votes: 2

Khalil Gibran

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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all. Votes: 2

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. Votes: 2

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it. Votes: 2

Bill Cosby

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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. Votes: 2

Judith Viorst

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A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. Votes: 2

Hugh Sidey

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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Votes: 2

Joan Lunden

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I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. Votes: 2

Jim Valvano

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Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect. Votes: 2

Marlo Thomas

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I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that. Votes: 2

Leah Remini

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Whatever it is that I feel, I express it! I am free with my joy, my laughter, my pleasure, my pain, and I am blessed in that way as an actress that I can access those feelings within myself and not be ashamed to show whatever that is that's appropriate for the character. Votes: 2

Kimberly Elise

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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that. Votes: 2

Ellen DeGeneres

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On sorrow floats laughter. Votes: 0

Gunter Grass

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Does anyone remember laughter? Votes: 0

Robert Plant

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Bells are musics laughter. Votes: 0

Thomas Hood

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Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies. Votes: 0

Homer

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Tape record your parents' laughter Votes: 0

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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Evil and laughter cannot co-exist. Votes: 0

Alice Thomas Ellis

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Cultivate the habit of laughter. Votes: 0

Og Mandino

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I like laughter around me. Votes: 0

Mireille Enos

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Shared laughter is erotic too. Votes: 0

Marge Piercy

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What a force is laughter. Votes: 0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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What is life without laughter? Votes: 0

Trenton Lee Stewart

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Nobody ever died of laughter. Votes: 0

Max Beerbohm

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The highest state is laughter. Votes: 0

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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laughter is always fatal to feeling ... Votes: 0

Amelia Barr

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wherever there's laughter, there is heaven Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter. Votes: 0

Francoise Sagan

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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter. Votes: 0

Peter Ustinov

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His laughter tinkled among the teacups. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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Myriad laughter of the ocean waves. Votes: 0

Aeschylus

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Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. Votes: 0

Max Beerbohm

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Love and laughter hold us together. Votes: 0

Ingrid Trobisch

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In comedy laughter settles all arguments. Votes: 0

Robert McKee

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Shared laughter creates a bond of friendship. Votes: 0

Lee Grant

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith

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There is nothing more precious than laughter Votes: 0

Frida Kahlo

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Seven days without laughter makes one weak. Votes: 0

Mort Walker

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Can you restrain your laughter, my friends? Votes: 0

Horace

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... laughter is lovelier than tears in bed. Votes: 0

Dorothy Hewett

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Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter. Votes: 0

Laurence J. Peter

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Uncontrollable laughter arose among the blessed gods. Votes: 0

Homer

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The only real laughter comes from despair. Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. Votes: 0

Catullus

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She laughed like she'd just invented laughter." Votes: 0

Mira Grant

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Carry laughter with you wherever you go. Votes: 0

Hugh Sidey

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One must take what comes, with laughter. Votes: 0

Olivia De Havilland

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Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter. Votes: 0

John Masefield

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And still, laughter is akin to weeping. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Grace has a grand laughter in it. Votes: 0

Marilynne Robinson

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I think laughter is a sacred act. Votes: 0

Tom Shadyac

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I just love listening to the laughter. Votes: 0

Simon Pegg

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It seems that laughter needs an echo. Votes: 0

Henri Bergson

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Better the last smile than the first laughter. Votes: 0

John Ray

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I believe that laughter is our greatest export Votes: 0

Walt Disney

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True life lies in laughter, love and work. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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Determine to live life with flair and laughter. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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You win the lasting laurels with your laughter. Votes: 0

Joni Mitchell

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Just thinking of your laughter gives me courage. . . Votes: 0

Rosamund Lupton

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Though laughter is allowable, a horse-laugh is abominable. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter. Votes: 0

Henri Bergson

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Life deserves laughter, hence people laugh at it. Votes: 0

Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter. Votes: 0

Dawn Powell

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There is thin line between smile and laughter. Votes: 0

Santosh Kalwar

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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Life is laughter amid a rosary of death. Votes: 0

Federico Garcia Lorca

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Wherever I am, there is joy and laughter! Votes: 0

Louise Hay

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Isn't it only laughter we can stay human? Votes: 0

James Clavell

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Real life is in love, laughter, and work. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood. Votes: 0

Byron Katie

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Remember, men need laughter sometimes more than food. Votes: 0

Annie Fellows Johnston

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I think there is nothing sexier than laughter lines. Votes: 0

Isla Fisher

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Buy laughter with tears, and you'll be rich forever. Votes: 0

Michael Bassey Johnson

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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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I think laughter comes because things are hardly working. Votes: 0

Jean-Luc Godard

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God howls with laughter at earthly plans, you know? Votes: 0

Rick Moody

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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence. Votes: 0

Martha Beck

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The chuckle is a perfectly acceptable form of laughter. Votes: 0

Timothy Hallinan

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The Gospel is nothing less than laughter and joy. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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You have as much laughter as you have faith. Votes: 0

Martin Luther

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I think laughter may be a form of courage. Votes: 0

Linda Ellerbee

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Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. Votes: 0

Bobby Sands

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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. Votes: 0

Nelson Mandela

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Our laughter is always the laughter of a group. Votes: 0

Henri Bergson

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Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise. Votes: 0

Publilius Syrus

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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key. Votes: 0

Yakov Smirnoff

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The house of laughter makes a house of woe. Votes: 0

Edward Young

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One does not kill by anger but by laughter. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I have a great love of animals and laughter. Votes: 0

Walt Disney

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Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter. Votes: 0

Leigh Bardugo

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Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma. Votes: 0

Benjamin De Casseres

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Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight. Votes: 0

Joseph Lelyveld

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Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears. Votes: 0

Tim Sandlin

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Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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In friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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The jackdaw, stript of her stolen colours, provokes our laughter. Votes: 0

Horace

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The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter. Votes: 0

Robin Williams

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But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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Sometimes laughter is the only way to process tough times Votes: 0

Todd Burpo

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I like to say it was born out of laughter. Votes: 0

Byron Katie

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It is in my soul to spread love and laughter. Votes: 0

Kim Coles

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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. Votes: 0

Eileen Caddy

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When you see what is not real, this laughter comes Votes: 0

Mooji

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The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective. Votes: 0

Phil Callaway

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I have always liked shows that have laughter in them. Votes: 0

David Walliams

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I hope you realize, in a democracy, laughter is assent. Votes: 0

Al Franken

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Let the disappointments pass, let the laughter fill your glass. Votes: 0

Jackson Browne

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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter. Votes: 0

Yakov Smirnoff

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Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one. Votes: 0

Rumi

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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. Votes: 0

Thomas Hobbes

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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The camera may do justice to laughter, but must degrade sorrow. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden

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Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness. Votes: 0

Phyllis Bottome

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I've been married forty-five years. I think laughter is the secret. Votes: 0

Bob Newhart

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The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love. Votes: 0

Mark Helprin

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I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it? Votes: 0

Edward St Aubyn

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There is very little success where there is very little laughter. Votes: 0

Andrew Carnegie

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Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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To laughter! The bright coinage of the bank of good will. Votes: 0

Minna Antrim

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Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem. Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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And so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after. Votes: 0

Gail Carson Levine

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Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. Votes: 0

Sir Fulke Greville

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Hostility is expressed in a number of ways. One is laughter. Votes: 0

Kate Millett

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter. Votes: 0

Lowkey

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There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be. Votes: 0

Whitney Houston

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People crave laughter as if it were an essential amino acid. Votes: 0

Patch Adams

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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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When you think about a walking tree, laughter is the response. Votes: 0

John Rhys-Davies

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All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching. Votes: 0

Robert Benchley

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Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart. Votes: 0

Stephen Stills

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When they say laughter is healing, it absolutely is the truth. Votes: 0

Katey Sagal

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As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope Votes: 0

Dean Koontz

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my sisters are tough. Our strength is in our laughter (Dan) Votes: 0

Amanda Welch

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In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration. Votes: 0

Edie Falco

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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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There is something about laughter that can take away all the darkness. Votes: 0

Christina Applegate

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Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter. Votes: 0

Hubert Selby, Jr.

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Thank goodness air and salvation are still free...and so is laughter. Votes: 0

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. Votes: 0

Joan Lunden

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My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. Votes: 0

Carroll O'Connor

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. Votes: 0

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand. Votes: 0

William Golding

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Happiness, laughter and joy abound, when friends, family, and lovers are around. Votes: 0

Amy Davis

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Whoever said laughter is the best medicine had clearly never tasted scotch. Votes: 0

Anne Taintor

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When stress is the disease, then forgiveness and laughter are the medicine. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice Votes: 0

Albert Schweitzer

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We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter? Votes: 0

Robert Plant

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Mickey was simply a little personality assigned to the purposes of laughter. Votes: 0

Walt Disney

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Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away Votes: 0

John Mellencamp

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Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. Votes: 0

David Archuleta

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Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. Votes: 0

William Osler

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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia. Votes: 0

Max Beerbohm

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Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. Votes: 0

Mel Gussow

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it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. Votes: 0

John Steinbeck

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I expect a black silence that is almost as violent as laughter. Votes: 0

Jean Cocteau

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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Dear Lover,Your laughter is warm rain, and you are the rainbow. Votes: 0

Lori Jenessa Nelson

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May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears! Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter. Votes: 0

Ivor Novello

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The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... Votes: 0

Lenny Bruce

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If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it. Votes: 0

Denis Norden

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Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh? Votes: 0

Leigh Hunt

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One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter. Votes: 0

Milo Yiannopoulos

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He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof. Votes: 0

Theodor Adorno

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A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs Votes: 0

Sherry Marie Gallagher

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Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter. Votes: 0

Emma Stone

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There is no laughter except that it is eventually followed up with weeping. Votes: 0

Ibn Sirin

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A little bit of laughter and an occasional adult beverage never hurt nobody. Votes: 0

Erica Tazel

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That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. Votes: 0

John Quinton

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Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After. Votes: 0

James Thurber

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If you become a little alert you will find love, light, laughter, everywhere. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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Love and laughter go together; and laughter is one of the greatest medicines. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter. Votes: 0

Twyla Tharp

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I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose. Votes: 0

Woody Allen

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Love, friendship, laughter... Some of the best things in life really are free. Votes: 0

Bob Marley

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In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine. Votes: 0

Immortal Technique

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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection." Votes: 0

Yakov Smirnoff

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Everybody laughs the same in every language because laughter is a universal connection. Votes: 0

Yakov Smirnoff

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Gentleness stepped out of your smile; but:Suspicion cried out from your laughter. Votes: 0

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

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I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world. Votes: 0

Peter Hedges

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Life was wonderful, so filled with people and activities, with love and laughter. Votes: 0

Judith McNaught

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The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell

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The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter. Votes: 0

Zero Mostel

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Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter. Votes: 0

Desiderius Erasmus

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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion. Votes: 0

Richard P. Feynman

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There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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Comedy holds the greatest risk for an actor, and laughter is the reward. Votes: 0

Cary Grant

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Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Votes: 0

Reinhold Niebuhr

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The gift of my childhood was laughter, being able to find the humor. Votes: 0

Jennifer Aniston

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No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon. Votes: 0

Celia Thaxter

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What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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She had no scars to show for her happiness except her laughter lines Votes: 0

Srividya Srinivasan

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I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter. Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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Rosie laughed in a not too reassuring way if you like sane laughter. Votes: 0

Louise Rennison

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Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Votes: 0

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter. Votes: 0

Horace

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What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter. Votes: 0

Charlotte Alington Barnard

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Let us decorate the world with the flowers of peace, love, and laughter. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing Votes: 0

Alice Herz-Sommer

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Anger kills both laughter and joy;What greater foe is there than anger? Votes: 0

Thiruvalluvar

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It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. Votes: 0

Ian Rankin

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Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter. Votes: 0

Pio of Pietrelcina

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Life is a waste without humor -- living is all about happiness and laughter. Votes: 0

Fauja Singh

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Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts. Votes: 0

Mary Tyler Moore

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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine. Votes: 0

Norman Vincent Peale

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Spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going. Votes: 0

Jim Valvano

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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation. Votes: 0

Erica Jong

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We passed from laughter to terror which, like love and hate, are close relatives. Votes: 0

Lise Deharme

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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. Votes: 0

Lord Chesterfield

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I live a very joyful life, with a lot of laughter and good times. Votes: 0

Kimberly Elise

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Smiles are a funny thingand laughter is hilarious.I smile sometimeswhen I am delirious. Votes: 0

Casey Renee Kiser

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Life's saving graces are love, pleasure, laughter ... wisdom, it seems, is for the Hereafter. Votes: 0

Michael R. Burch

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The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time. Votes: 0

John Goodman

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April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears. Votes: 0

William Watson

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Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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Her faith in a loving and forgiving God is strong, but she worships laughter. Votes: 0

Miriam Toews

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In every tear there is a melting sorrow, in every laughter a flaming joy Votes: 0

Subhan Zein

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Of all the things God created, I am often most grateful He created laughter. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. Votes: 0

Thomas de Quincey

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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Meadowlark and I share a common vision of bringing joy and laughter to others. Votes: 0

Bill Cosby

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I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. Votes: 0

Francois Rabelais

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God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. Votes: 0

Neale Donald Walsch

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He who always prefaces his tale with laughter, is poised between impertinence and folly. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place Votes: 0

Taylor Swift

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The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. Votes: 0

Henri Bergson

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I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe. Votes: 0

BrenÃ© Brown

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Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes. Votes: 0

Steve Coogan

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Winter's done, and April's in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes! Votes: 0

Charles G.D. Roberts

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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears? Votes: 0

Soren Kierkegaard

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One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. Votes: 0

Francoise Sagan

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In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity. Votes: 0

Laura Bohannan

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I am the laughter of the new-born child On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled. Votes: 0

Richard Watson Gilder

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We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom. Votes: 0

Rosario Castellanos

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Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. Votes: 0

Marlo Thomas

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You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park. Votes: 0

Marlo Thomas

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What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter. Votes: 0

Joseph Barbera

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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. Votes: 0

James Boswell

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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop. Votes: 0

Carrot Top

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The foundation of youth [for me]...lots of water, lots of laughter, lots of sex. Votes: 0

Cameron Diaz

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We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist. Votes: 0

Joseph Heller

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened. Votes: 0

Lawrence Durrell

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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. Votes: 0

Fred Allen

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My heart can't stop beating faster, every time I hear your name or your laughter. Votes: 0

Melissa Ferrick

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it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! Votes: 0

Zora Neale Hurston

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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter. Votes: 0

Yakov Smirnoff

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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Votes: 0

Carl Sandburg

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Good laughter, or even a smile. It makes everything grow. It makes people Love you. Votes: 0

Angie Karan

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Sing with me, sing for the years. Sing for the laughter'n sing for the tears. Votes: 0

Steven Tyler

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Today, Japan is one of the few countries in the world where one hears laughter everywhere. Votes: 0

David Douglas Duncan

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I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down. Votes: 0

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A loving mother makes sacrifices for peace and laughter to reign in her home and family. Votes: 0

Agu Jaachynma N.E.

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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. Votes: 0

George Ade

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I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin

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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it. Votes: 0

Albert Brooks

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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark. Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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Rest and laughter are the most spiritual and subversive acts of all. Laugh, rest, slow down. Votes: 0

Anne Lamott

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Purpose and laughter are the twins that must not separate. Each is empty without the other. Votes: 0

Robert K. Greenleaf

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The only time laughter is wicked is when it is turned against Him Who gave it. Votes: 0

Fulton J. Sheen

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I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me. Votes: 0

Max Beerbohm

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Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain. Votes: 0

Marc Maron

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The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools. Votes: 0

Francis Quarles

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The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. Votes: 0

Henri Bergson

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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter. Votes: 0

Zac Efron

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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. Votes: 0

Rafael Sabatini

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Dancing to a great song with great friends and lots of laughter makes me come alive. Votes: 0

Sadie Calvano

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Humor is most powerful thing that uses laughter as it base to chase your blues away. Votes: 0

Kareena Kapoor

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And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. Votes: 0

Lea Thompson

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The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter. Votes: 0

BrenÃ© Brown

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Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God. Votes: 0

Beth Moore

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God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter. Votes: 0

Sydney J. Harris

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To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths. Votes: 0

Stuart Hill

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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. Votes: 0

Sherman Alexie

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I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that. Votes: 0

Fred D'Aguiar

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Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. Votes: 0

Peta Wilson

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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward. Votes: 0

Victor Borge

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There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. Votes: 0

Rumi

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The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul. Votes: 0

Gloria Naylor

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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. Votes: 0

Francois Rabelais

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In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. Votes: 0

Gordon B. Hinckley

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It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance. Votes: 0

Martha Graham

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I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter. Votes: 0

Yakov Smirnoff

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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. Votes: 0

Edward Abbey

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I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them. Votes: 0

Judy Garland

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Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter. Votes: 0

Rumi

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Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter. Votes: 0

Saadi

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We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter. Votes: 0

Ringo Starr

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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter. Votes: 0

William P. Young

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Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter. Votes: 0

Pablo Neruda

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Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up. Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. Votes: 0

Joseph Addison

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Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy. Votes: 0

Mel Brooks

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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold. Votes: 0

John Betjeman

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People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.' Votes: 0

Sid Caesar

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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Immanuel Kant

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I'm not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

John Green

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Of all the gifts bestowed by nature on human beings, hearty laughter must be close to the top.

Norman Cousins

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One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Rajneesh

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Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

Robert Herrick

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Not since Jimmy Carr have I seen a cold computer programme on stage generate so much laughter.

Robin Ince

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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

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

Brian Andreas

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Sharing laughter is a way of casting delight to the wind so it blows everywhere and to everyone.

Paul Pearsall

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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

Plato

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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

Seneca the Younger

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Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

Alice Meynell

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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

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Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

Henry Roth

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It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

John Lithgow

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Togetherness, passion, laughter, faith, trust, and jealousy are the essential ingredients of love

Shah Rukh Khan

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Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

Stella McCartney

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In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immanuel Kant

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It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

Madeleine L'Engle

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Old homes! old hearts! Upon my soul forever Their peace and gladness lie like tears and laughter.

Madison Cawein

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Pranking exposes the truth that underneath this appearance of order is joy, laughter, and disorder.

Mac Barnett

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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagion: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Robert Holden

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Laughter rarely lasts longer than a few seconds, it's true. But how enjoyable those few seconds are.

David Levithan

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All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter.

James Tiptree Jr.

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While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Ryan Adams

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That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.

Sheldon B. Kopp

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Time is a river rolling into nowhere. We must live while we can, and we'll drink our cup of laughter.

Steve Winwood

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The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

Evan Esar

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Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

H. Rider Haggard

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Laughter, like love, has power to survive the worst things life has to offer. And to do it with style.

Jim Butcher

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

Mark Twain

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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

Victor Hugo

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...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.

Henry James

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There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.

Neil Berkeley

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I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling.

Carol Burnett

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No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

Erma Bombeck

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We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

H. Allen Smith

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

Hannah Arendt

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Laugh every chance you get. Laughter is sure to break the bonds of negativity that may be lurking about.

James Van Praagh

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Even if I wasn't an actress or a comedian, I would be spreading love and laughter [with] whatever I did.

Kim Coles

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Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

Isobelle Carmody

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Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Karl Barth

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Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

Stephen Fry

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Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

Wilferd Peterson

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The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

Brian Andreas

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Happy Birthday to you hope your day is full of fun, and a day of laughter until the setting of the sun.

Susan Smith

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It is difficult for people to appreciate their own laughter unless you show them some pathos along the way.

Jackie Gleason

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I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

Rajneesh

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The purpose of laughter is to bring one to silence, and the purpose of silence is to bring one to laughter.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!

Hafez

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I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter.

Neil Jordan

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I know its corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.

Andy Dick

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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

William Butler Yeats

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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 cafÃ©.

Oscar Hammerstein II

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Laughter dulls the sharpest pain and flattens out the greatest stress. To share it is to give a gift of health.

Barbara Johnson

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Laughter is a most healthful exertion; it is one of the greatest helps to digestion with which I am acquainted.

Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

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There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

George S. Kaufman

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I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith.

Thea Bowman

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Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.

William Alfred Quayle

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Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

Heinrich Heine

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Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.

Galway Kinnell

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Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

John Lithgow

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

James Thurber

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What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Marie Corelli

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In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage.

Michelle Obama

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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.

Ken Kesey

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I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.

Susan M. Watkins

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Blaise Pascal

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

J. C. Ryle

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There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.

Rene Maheu

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Laughter is the jam on the toast of life. It adds flavor, keeps it from being too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.

Diane Johnson

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We are a blessed people and, with God s guidance, our smiles might even become laughter in the not too distant future.

John Kufuor

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The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

RuPaul

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Everyone knows how people who laugh easily create us by their laughter,--making us think of funnier and funnier things.

Brenda Ueland

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Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

Dave Attell

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From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

George Strait

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Joy and laughter are the gifts of living in the presence of God and trusting that tomorrow is not worth worrying about.

Henri Nouwen

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O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

Juvenal

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Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

Norman Cousins

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Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

Alice Walker

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Beyond the deepest tragedy there is laughter; even in the midst of tragedy there is always the possibility for laughter.

Del Close

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Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

Margaret Atwood

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I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

RuPaul

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On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.

Hartley Coleridge

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Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.

May Sarton

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I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn't laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.

Miranda July

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Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.

Tom Robbins

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Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

Bill Maher

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I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

Charles Bukowski

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Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

Diane Ackerman

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A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

Don Marquis

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There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit....

William Butler Yeats

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We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Henri Barbusse

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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

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If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.

Mercedes Lackey

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There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

Jesmyn Ward

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What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.

Nikos Kazantzakis

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Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

Quintilian

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Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

Lenny Bruce

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The solution is always spiritual, and it almost never has anything to do with the problem ... laughter is carbonated holiness.

Anne Lamott

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The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

Gilbert Highet

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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

John Milton

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If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.

Ana Monnar

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We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

George William Russell

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I just - you know, some people just have some very full laughter - full of joy - and have no shame or fear of letting that out.

Ray Liotta

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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

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Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

Ace Antonio Hall

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"I'm glad there's been so much laughter in the audience tonight." "But they're not laughing with you. They're laughing at you."

Terry Wogan

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Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

George Gissing

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And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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There are lots of ways to bring joy, happiness, peace, laughter, hope and comfort into your life, and they cost absolutely nothing.

Sandra Magsamen

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Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.

Oliver Herford

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You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over the wine.

Callimachus

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It's true that laughter really is cheap medicine. It's a prescription anyone can afford. And best of all, you can fill it right now.

Steve Goodier

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I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

Larry David

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I like subversive humor, freckles, women's knees and long hair, the laughter of playing children, and a girl running down the street.

Rene Magritte

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Occasionally, a finger comes up to wipe a tear [of laughter] from the eye... and that's my reward... the rest goes to the government.

Victor Borge

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And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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I'm not living the life I thought I would lead, but it does have meaning, purpose. There is love... there is joy... there is laughter.

Christopher Reeve

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Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There's always laughter and good red wine. At least I've always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!

Hilaire Belloc

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The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.

Rumi

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my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here

Charles Bukowski

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It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.

Goldie

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Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

Joni Mitchell

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Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin,May they be strong to keep hate outAnd hold love in.

Louis Untermeyer

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the boys had learned that laughter stilled anxiety. It cleared away mystery. If you could laugh at something, it erased its importance.

Mary Astor

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Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it"that's why it's funny,

Mike Nichols

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Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

Rajneesh

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The world of men show like a comedy without laughter: populations, interests, government, history; 't is all toy figures in a toyhouse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Amidst all your cries and laughter let your mind take a moment off, and go still. Look at this moment, this moment alone, and go still.

Swami Veda Bharati

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Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

Federico Fellini

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Writer-director John Roecker's debut, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! will have you convulsing on the floor ... with nausea, laughter, or both.

John Roecker

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We believe elegance can be casual. We believe gracefulness can be compatible with fits of laughter. We believe in living a colorful life

Lilly Pulitzer

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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.

David Brenner

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Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!

Joyce Meyer

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I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.

Rajneesh

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One night I was preaching on hell and laughter just hit the whole place. The more I told people what hell was like the more they laughed.

Rodney Howard-Browne

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God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?

Sylvia Plath

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Laughter can relieve tension, soothe the pain of disappointment, and strengthen the spirit for the formidable tasks that always lie ahead.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.

Rajneesh

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But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

Adriana Trigiani

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He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

David Nicholls

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This world is a vaporous jest at best, Tossed off by the gods in laughter, And a cruel attempt at wit were it, If nothing better came after.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

Gloria Steinem

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Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

Kathi Appelt

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Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss!

Sivananda

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Spirituality does not have to be serious. You are spirituality. Fun laughter heal you faster than anything. Introduce fun back into your life.

Anita Moorjani

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Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

John Sterling

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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

Henri Bergson

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I want to find myself a girl who can show me what laughter means, and we'll fill in the missing numbers in each others paint-by-numbers dreams.

Jackson Browne

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Laughter. It connects me to the moment, the people around me, nothing like a good belly laugh to feel alive. And having sex outdoors, of course.

Danielle Cormack

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We women take love too seriously. Men wish to be loved with laughter, not with sighing. So laugh, sweetheart, laugh, or soon you may be weeping.

Minna Antrim

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My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

RuPaul

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Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer?

Stephenie Meyer

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Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

Andrew Marr

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I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

Ellen DeGeneres

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I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy.

Klaus Kinski

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The cost of a loaf is a simple thing, and so a loaf is often sought, but some things are past valuing: laughter, land, and love are never bought.

Patrick Rothfuss

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Love without laughter can be grim and oppressive. Laughter without love can be derisive and venomous. Together they make for greatness of spirit.

Robert K. Greenleaf

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Seriousness is equated with responsibility, when, in fact, I think we would be much more responsible if we had more joy and laughter in our lives.

Deepak Chopra

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Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

Erica Jong

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Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

Josh James

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God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.

Mark Buchanan

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This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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When you meet someone, you can silently send them a blessing, wishing them happiness, joy and laughter. This kind of silent giving is very powerful.

Deepak Chopra

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I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

Estelle Parsons

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Sometimes when someone says something stupid, my friends and I just read the reviews out loud and collapse with laughter at the stupidity of it all.

Jamaica Kincaid

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He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

Charles Dickens

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It dawned on me then that as long as I could laugh, I was safe from the world; and I have learned since that laughter keeps me safe from myself, too.

Jimmy Durante

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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Dean Koontz

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

George Bernard Shaw

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The Kennedy home was a place of much action and laughter, a lively, brawling mob of children overseen by a mother who knew when to look the other way.

James David Barber

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I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing. It's one of my favorite thing to do, so I'm attracted to it for many reasons.

Kelly Stables

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There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

John F. Kennedy

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Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

May Sarton

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Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer "¦ Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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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

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I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

Josh Earnest

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I love making things, like software, and films, and laughter. And working with Gus Silber, to make the Funny Business book, has been a fantastic journey.

Ronnie Apteker

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She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brother's laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.

George R. R. Martin

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In comedy, falling means laughter. You can take something sacred and make it silly. The more sacred it is, the funnier it is. It has a bigger drop to fall.

Bo Burnham

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To become balanced, meditate on the heart center in the center of the chest. There you will experience happiness, refinement, sensitivity, beauty, laughter.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Siegfried Sassoon

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Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

Oscar Wilde

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He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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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

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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

George P. Baker

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To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

Vince Lombardi

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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

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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Jonathan Safran Foer

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When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

David Ogilvy

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Men ought to know that from the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joy, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs, and tears.

Hippocrates

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Joseph Addison

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As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill.

T. S. Eliot

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Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Don DeLillo

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

George Bernard Shaw

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For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

Lady Bird Johnson

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Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

Norman Cousins

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Any philosophical and theoretical assurance that laughter is unique to the human being becomes somewhat unsure when one turns to the anthropological literature.

Simon Critchley

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Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.

Walt Whitman

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That's the chief lesson I have learned: the texture of our universe is one where there is no question at all but that good and laughter and justice will prevail.

Desmond Tutu

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The first person I learned I could make happy with laughter was my mother, whom I idolize. It was a powerful thing to realize. I knew I had found my life's work.

Ellen DeGeneres

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In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

Longchenpa

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Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.

Renee Marino

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I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

Alice Lowe

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English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

Mark Twain

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Now, if laughter is proper to the human being, then the human being who does not laugh invites the charge of inhumanity, or at least makes us somewhat suspicious.

Simon Critchley

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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

Sean O'Casey

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Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Arthur Koestler

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Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

Max Beerbohm

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If you become silent after your laughter, one day you will hear God also laughing, you will hear the whole existence laughing - trees and stones and stars with you.

Rajneesh

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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her...

Catullus

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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

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I think laughter may be a form of courage As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

Linda Ellerbee

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Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.

David Letterman

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I hope and hoping feeds my pain I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart I laugh but the laughter does not pass within I burn but the burning makes no mark outside

Niccolo Machiavelli

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The analysis of laughter had opened to me points of contact between the fundamentals of a communal and disciplined emotional knowledge and those of discursive knowledge.

Georges Bataille

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Baby, after considerable thought I've reached the conclusion that the only conceivable legitimate answer to the Universe as constituted is a peal of hysterical laughter.

Keith Laumer

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My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.

Yasmin Mogahed

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I have suckled the wolf's lip of anger and I have used it for illumination, laughter, protection, fire in places where there was no light, no food, no sisters, no quarter.

Audre Lorde

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There are a few activities which are immensely valuable: laughter is one of these activities. Singing, dancing, are also of the same quality, but laughter is the quickest.

Rajneesh

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In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

Anais Nin

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You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.

Desmond Tutu

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Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

Rajneesh

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I never wanted the ha-ha-ha laughter [at my shows]. I always aimed for the gut. I always aimed for the pretty girls in the front row, laughing and leaning over and pooting.

Tracy Morgan

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When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

Eliza Leslie

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As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

Eric Maisel

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The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.

Siobhan Dowd

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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Winston Churchill

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One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.

Bob Hope

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Meditate upon all the perfect light within your own mind! Do this repeatedly and the radiant Bodhisattvas of Wisdom and Laughter will visit you and change your karma forever!

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, "What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

Maggie Stiefvater

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It was inevitable, of course, but somehow it didn't seem right to Alex that they would never remember the sound of Carly's laughter, or know how deeply she'd once loved them.

Nicholas Sparks

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Laughter is essential to our equilibrium, to our well-being, to our aliveness. If we're not well, laughter helps us get well. If we are well, laughter helps us stay that way.

Peter McWilliams

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Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

Richard Steele

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Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

Alan Cohen

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Do you know why men name their cocks?" "No, why?" she asked, trying to stifle her laughter. "So most of the major decisions in their lives wonât be made by a total stranger.

Linda Howard

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Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

Michael Mewshaw

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She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

Sarah MacLean

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Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me.

Tamora Pierce

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Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.

David Sedaris

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Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

Dennis Miller

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For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

Erma Bombeck

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Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies with its lasting, inextinguishable laughter.

Boris Sidis

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The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.'

Anthony Jeselnik

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Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

Jean Houston

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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Paul McCartney

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The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

Elizabeth Hardwick

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People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.

Marilyn Manson

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Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.

Alexander Pope

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Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places.

Joseph Conrad

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I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions.

Walt Disney

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I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Brenda Shaughnessy

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

Claire Cook

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There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

Francis Chan

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They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man's laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death," Ned said evenly. "Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.

George R. R. Martin

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Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

Rajneesh

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The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Francis Aveling

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Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind ...

Mary McCarthy

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If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

Eric Idle

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People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

Kurt Vonnegut

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I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.

Dodie Smith

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You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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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

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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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I don't remember what my favourite comedy film is - truthfully! I saw Borat and I thought I was not going to be able to get out of the theatre because I was in so much pain from the laughter.

Morgan Freeman

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What is so funny about us is precisely that we take ourselves too seriously. Laughter is the same and healthy response to the innocent foibles of men; and even to some which are not innocent.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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When you find yourself beginning to feel a bond between yourself and the people you photograph, when you laugh and cry with their laughter and tears, you will know you are on the right track.

Weegee

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That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

Marcel Proust

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As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Seneca the Younger

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Friends, you are lucky you can talk about what you did as lovers; the tricks, laughter, the words, the ecstasy. After my darling put his hand on the knot of my dress, I swear I remember nothing.

Vidya Balan

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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.

Aristotle

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I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

Fred Astaire

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You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

Lenny Bruce

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Thanks to April," she whispered, "you have the wedding you've dreamed about ever since you were a little girl." Dean's boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this man with all her heart.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

Terry Tempest Williams

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A sense of humor is a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.

Dave Barry

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We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]

Elie Wiesel

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I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Ingrid Betancourt

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I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

Mahatma Gandhi

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One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

Alfred Korzybski

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Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

Orison Swett Marden

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Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.

Jason Mraz

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I find it [science] analytical, pretentious and superficial-largely because it does not address itself to dreams, chance, laughter, feelings, or paradox-in other words,-all the things I love the most.

Luis Bunuel

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I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma

Thom Yorke

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To a happy war!" Their laughter flowed out into the night and reached into the pass through the Dancing Maidens, where it echoed around the mountains with all the insane glee of an army of pyschopaths.

Stuart Hill

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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.

Will Rogers

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