Quotes with laughter

  • Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
  • Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
  • Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
  • Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
  • The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
  • Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard.
  • True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
  • Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
  • The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
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  • Eileen Caddy Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Carl Sandburg Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • William Shakespeare With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Groucho Marx From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend on reading it.
    Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Joseph Addison 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.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Joseph Addison Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Charles Dickens There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Mark Twain Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • August Wilson All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
    August Wilson
    American playwright (1945 - 2005)
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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  • Aldous Huxley Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Buddha Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Hilaire Belloc From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    Hilaire Belloc
    British Author (1870 - 1953)
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  • Norman Cousins Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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