Laughing Quotes - Page 13

• Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

  Sean O'Casey

  Laughter, Wine, Men

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• The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Sleep, Grandchildren

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• When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.

  Tamora Pierce

  Jobs, Knights, People

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.377, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorrow, Torches, Stories

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• Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Baby, Stupid, Kids

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• What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Hands, Strange Places

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.81, A&C Black

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• This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Mean, World, Ugly

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• living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

  Kathy Lette

  Daughter, Mother, Teenage

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• It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. "Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'" "That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet.

  Meg Cabot

  Laughter, Eye, Hair

  Meg Cabot (2008). “How to be Popular: ... when you're a social reject like me, Steph L.!”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.

  Steven Wright

  Sense Of Humor, Cattle

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• Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan.

  Shannon Hale

  Home, Boys, Insanity

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• They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric looked at her too long, as though he forgot he was looking, as though he did not wish to do anything else. She looked back. Her took heart took its time quieting down.

  Shannon Hale

  Heart, Long, Wish

  Shannon Hale (2008). “The Goose Girl”, p.193, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Fate, Shantaram, Jokes

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.151, Macmillan

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• And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are: Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.

  Jane Yolen

  Hate, Book, Fire

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• I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mad, Strange, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Apology, Men

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• And exactly how does a miserable face help the war effort?" he asked sharply, his mood beginning to change. "Will a frown bring back the dead or fortify a town? If I allow myself to laugh in the face of misery, I rest my mind from the stress of it all, and then it'll work the better for you and your war. And if I'm really to be one of your advisers, Your Majesty, accept this piece of advise: Take happiness where and when you find it, because there is going to be precious little of it in the next few months!

  Stuart Hill

  Stress, War, Effort

  Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark”, p.162, Scholastic Inc.

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• laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.

  Jessica Simpson

  Funny, Laughter, Weight Loss

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• A good friend will help you up when you fall. A best friend will laugh and try to trip you again. - I'm not sure

  Tamora Pierce

  Fall, Good Friend, Trying

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• Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are. And the more you wage war.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  War, Kissing, Animal

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

  Stephen King

  Gun, Men

  Stephen King (2006). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• Talk to strangers when the family fails and friends lead you astray when Buddha laughs and Jesus weeps and it turns out God is gay. 'Cause angels and messiahs love can come in many forms: in the hallways of your projects, or the fat girl in your dorm, and when you finally take the time to see what they’re about perhaps you find them lonely or their wisdom trips you out.

  Saul Williams

  Girl, Lonely, Jesus

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• You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laughing.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Dust, Hands

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• Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

  Emily Bronte

  Dream, Prayer, Moving

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.133, The Floating Press

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• When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

  P. G. Wodehouse

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