Laughing Quotes - Page 14

• I laugh at my heart, and do its will

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, My Heart

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• ... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

  Heart, Eye, Fate

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• Don't you know that I laugh because it is my last defense against tears?

  Jim Fergus

  Tears, Defense, Lasts

  Jim Fergus (2010). “One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd”, p.74, Macmillan

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• When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Aunt, Understanding, Should

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• One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

  Peter Cook

  Way, Beaten

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• You built your walls too, she tells him. So I have my wall. She says it glittering in a beauty he cannot stand. She with her beautiful clothes with her pale face that laughs at everyone who smiles at her.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Beautiful, Wall, Clothes

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• I try to laugh at whatever life brings.

  Ani DiFranco

  Trying

  Song: AS IS, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiration, Blow, Mind

  'Solitude'

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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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• Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.

  Steven Wright

  Sense Of Humor, Cattle

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• I find the humor in life, and laugh easily

  Doreen Virtue

  Life Humor

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• Please stop putting quotes from Nietzsche at the end of your emails. Five years ago you were laughing your guts out over American Pie 2. What — suddenly you’ve magically turned into Noam Chomsky?

  Douglas Coupland

  Years, Pie, Email

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.249, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Autumn, Night

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.

  Miranda July

  Block, Airports, Squares

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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