Laughter Quotes - Page 14

• No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

  Red Skelton

  Happiness, Heartache, Laughing

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• Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Self, Tragedy, Hearing

  "Inferior Religions" by Wyndham Lewis, 1917.

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• The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Humorous, Jail

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 4 (1916)

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• Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Laughing, World

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• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Talking, Ideas

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To laugh is proper to man.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Laughing

  Gargantua bk. 1, "Rabelais to the Reader" (1534)

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• Better the last smile than the first laughter.

  John Ray

  Lasts, Firsts

  John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index; in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases”, p.330

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• The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Girl, Sound, Earth

  Thomas De Quincey (1853). “De Quincey's works”, p.85

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• There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Laughing, Remember, Realizing

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Laughing, Grumbling, May

  "Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

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• Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

  Bernie Glassman

  Wisdom, Morning, Mirrors

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• Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

  Halle Berry

  Laughing, African American, Way

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• Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!

  Paula Radcliffe

  Motivational, Success, Dream

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

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  I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• It's so easy to laugh,
  It's so easy to hate,
  It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

  Steven Morrissey

  Strength, Kindness, Hate

  "Song: 'I Know It's Over'". 1986.

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

  Jessica Simpson

  Funny, Weight Loss, Laughing

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• Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. Try things. Say hi already. Laugh a lot. Mess up. Apologize. Mess up again. Hug people. Take chances. Trust yourself. Lose things. Get over it. Hold your friends close. Gather your strength. Gain wisdom and beautiful stories. Be brave, and you'll have the time of your life.

  Taylor Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Hope, Eye

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• If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that's a good picture.

  Eddie Adams

  Photography, Rip, Heart

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• Since things neither exist nor do not exist, are neither real nor unreal, are utterly beyond adopting and rejecting - one might as well burst out laughing.

  Longchenpa

  Buddhist, Real, Laughing

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• Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt.

  Staceyann Chin

  Life, Self, Knowing

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• Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Sexy, Witty, Laughing

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• Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it seems, one golden morning, the Bush awakes, a living thing. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and all the world puts on its gayest dress to greet the laughing Spring.

  C. J. Dennis

  Nature, Morning, Spring

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• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  Kajol

  Change, Being Yourself, Learning

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