Humor And Laughter Quotes - Page 2

• You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Life, Happy Birthday

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Laughter, Sleep, Insomnia

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• If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

  John Cleese

  Teamwork, Fun, Business

  "Best New Games" by Dale N. LeFevre, (p. 9), 2002.

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• We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 285, 1979.

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• There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Laughter, Twilight, Humor

  "The New World and the New Book, an Address, Delivered Before the Nineteenth Century Club of New York City, Jan. 15, 1891".

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• When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

  Alan Alda

  Happiness, Peace, Laughter

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

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• I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three.

  Elayne Boosler

  Funny, Life, Hilarious

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• Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Happiness, Laughter

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• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  Max Eastman

  Laughter, Pain, Humor

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• A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Funny, Good Morning, Happiness

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• A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.

  William James

  Dance, Humor, Common Sense

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• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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• Humor is just another defense against the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Inspirational, Laughter, Humor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Life, Thankful

  "Positive Words, Powerful Results". Book by Hal Urban (p. 105), 2004.

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• Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

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• Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.

  Romain Gary

  Positive, Laughter, Work

  Romain Gary (1987). “Promise at Dawn”, p.130, New Directions Publishing

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• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

  Langston Hughes

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.525, University of Missouri Press

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• If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Funny Love, Wise

  "The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas".

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• I love people who make me laugh!

  Audrey Hepburn

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  "How to be Lovely". Book by Melissa Hellstern, 2005.

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• You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

  Bill Cosby

  Life, Laughter, Humor

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• Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Happiness, Laughter, Prayer

  Reinhold Niebuhr, (2013). “Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow”, p.72, Read Books Ltd

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• Humor and laughter are not necessarily the same thing. Humor permits us to see into life from a fresh and gracious perspective. We learn to take ourselves more lightly in the presence of good humor. Humor gives us the strength to bear what cannot be changed, and the sight to see the human under the pompous.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Laughter, Humor, Sight

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• An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

  Norman Cousins

  Laughter, Healthy, Essentials

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• Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

  Beth Moore

  Laughter, Heart, Wonderful

  Beth Moore (2013). “Jesus, the One and Only”, p.56, B&H Publishing Group

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