Quotes: laughter
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Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
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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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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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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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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.
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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.
Source: Obituary in The Independent -
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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Can there be joy and laughter When always the world is ablaze? Enshrouded in darkness Should you not seek a light?
Source: Dhammapada -
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) -
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.
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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
