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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
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Joseph Addison(1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman) |
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| One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
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Joseph Addison(1672-1719, British essayist, poet, statesman) |
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| The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.
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| We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest, and our attention to something besides ourselves.
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Ethel Percy Andrus(American educator, founder of The National Retired Teachers) |
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| To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
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Honore De Balzac(1799-1850, French novelist) |
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| You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.
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Ethel Barrymore(1879-1959, American actress) |
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| Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
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Karl Barth(1886-1968, Swiss theologian) |
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| Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.
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Jean Baudrillard(French postmodern philosopher, writer) |
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| I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep.
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Pierre De Beaumarchais(1732-1799, French dramatist) |
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| I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
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Pierre De Beaumarchais(1732-1799, French dramatist) |
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| Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Henry Ward Beecher(1813-1887, American preacher, orator, writer) |
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| Nobody ever died of laughter.
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Max Beerbohm(1872-1956, British actor) |
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| Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
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Ambrose Bierce(1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, The Devil's Dictionary) |
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| The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
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Tom Bodett(American author, TV host) |
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| Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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Victor Borge(1909-2000, Danish entertainer, pianist) |
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| Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.
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Marion Zimmer Bradley |
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| That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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A. Whitney Brown |
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| If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
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Jimmy Buffet(1946-, American songwriter, singer) |
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| I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
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Robert Burns(1759-1796, Scottish poet) |
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| Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
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Lord Byron(1788-1824, British poet) |
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| Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
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Eileen Caddy(American spiritual writer) |
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| Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
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St. John Chrysostom(345-407, Patriarch of Constantinople) |
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| Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author) |
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| The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort(1741-1794, French writer, journalist, playwright) |
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| Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
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Charlie Chaplin(1889-1977, British comic actor, filmmaker) |
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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; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
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Malcolm De Chazal(1902-1981, French writer) |
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| The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
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Malcolm De Chazal(1902-1981, French writer) |
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| We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
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Malcolm De Chazal(1902-1981, French writer) |
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| Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
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Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield(1694-1773, British statesman, author) |
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| Tears mess up your makeup.
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Julia Child(1912-2004, American gourmet cook, author, and television personality) |
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| Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
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Sean Connery(1930-, Scottish-born American actor) |
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| Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
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Norman Cousins(1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author) |
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| Laughter is inner jogging.
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Norman Cousins(1915-1990, American editor, humanitarian, author) |
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| The earth laughs in flowers.
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EE Cummings(1894-1962, American poet) |
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| A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.
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Margaret Deland |
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| There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
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Marlene Dietrich(1904-1992, German-born American film actor) |
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| If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky(1821-1881, Russian novelist) |
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| One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.
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Sara Jeannette Duncan |
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| Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
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Max Eastman(American commentator, writer) |
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| The most useless day is that in which we have not laughed.
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Charles Field |
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| She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
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Benjamin Franklin(1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat) |
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| The more laws, the more offenders.
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Thomas Fuller(1608-1661, British clergyman, author) |
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| Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe(1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist) |
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| There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol(1809-1852, Russian author, dramatist) |
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| I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.
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Oliver Goldsmith(1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright) |
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| The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
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Oliver Goldsmith(1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright) |
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