Quotes with laughter

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  • Alice Meynell The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Milan Kundera The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Anne Rice The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Marlene Dietrich There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Andrew Carnegie There is little success where there is little laughter.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • James Boswell There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bill Cosby 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.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Laurence J. Peter Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Georges Bernanos When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Cate Blanchett Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Albert Einstein Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • C. C. H. Pounder With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bill Cosby You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Eileen Caddy Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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