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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.

  Joseph Addison

  Believe, Heart, Men

  'The Spectator' no. 494, 26 September 1712

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• No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.1, ch.4.

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• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

  Peter Ustinov

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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• A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

  Puzant Kevork Thomajan

  Happiness, Dry Cleaning, Giving

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• He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof.

  Theodor Adorno

  Happiness, Joy, Needs

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.210, Verso

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• I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see. Nowadays, I don't want a "perfect" face and body; I want to wear the life I've lived.

  Pat Benatar

  Life, Perfect, Laughing

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• The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.

  Lenny Bruce

  Funny, Happiness, Fake People

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• 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

  Love, Cute, Happiness

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.18

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• Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Happiness, Joy, Heartless

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.72, Oxford University Press

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• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humor, People, Laughing

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• I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

  Laurence Sterne

  Smile, Men, Laughing

  Laurence Sterne (2013). “3 Books by Laurence Sterne”, p.3, eBookIt.com

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• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Light, Self

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• The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspiration, Compassion, Understanding

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.92, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Happiness, Perfect, Laughing

  Anne Rice (1995). “Taltos: Lives of the Mayfair Witches”

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• Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

  Frida Kahlo

  Light, Laughing, Tragedy

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• Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

  Gilda Radner

  Happiness, Cancer, Laughing

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• If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

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• The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  "Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson".

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• When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Hands, Hair

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• I will follow the upward road today; I will keep my face to the light. I will think high thoughts as I go my way; I will do what I know is right. I will look for the flowers by the side of the road; I will laugh and love and be strong. I will try to lighten another's load this day as I fare along.

  Mary Susanne Edgar

  Happiness, Strong, Flower

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• Everybody knows from his own experience that after laughter, good laughter, a belly laugh, you almost feel that you have taken an ice-cold shower; a peace, a silence, a freshness... The same is true about crying, but very few people know the secret of crying because it is more repressed than laughter.

  Rajneesh

  Taken, Ice, People

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• Laughter is such a healthy exercise. Somebody is laughing - that's perfectly good exercise, join him. Somebody is being playful - if you have time, join him.

  Rajneesh

  Exercise, Perfectly Good, Laughing

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• Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is capable of laughing. Laughter is the only distinguishing mark that you are not a buffalo, you are not a donkey; you are a human being. Laughter defines your humanity and your evolution. And the greatest laugh is at your own ridiculous things.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Men, Laughing

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• I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the highest point of understanding, the highest point of evolution. That's why I have started calling laughter "the prayer time."

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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• I want to be taken playfully, not seriously - not with a long British face, but with beautiful laughter. Your laughter, your playfulness is the recognition that you have understood me. Your seriousness shows that you have misunderstood me, you have missed it - because seriousness is nothing but sickness. It is another name of sadness; it is a shadow of death. And I am all for life. If it is needed for your laughter, your dance, even to reject me, then reject me - but don't reject the dance and the song and the life, because that is my teaching.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Song, Teaching

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