Quotes: laughter
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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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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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With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
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Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
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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.
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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.
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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?
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
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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.
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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.
Source: Life (9 geb. 1962), over Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge van S.J. Perelman
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
