Laughter Quotes - Page 17

• Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Happiness, Wine, Vintage

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"

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• The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.

  Albert Brooks

  Art, Couple, Years

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• Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

  Norman Douglas

  Happiness, Giving, Joy

  Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

  Marc Maron

  Pain, Disappointment, Faces

  Marc Maron (2002). “The Jerusalem Syndrome: My Life as a Reluctant Messiah”, p.108, Crown Archetype

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• Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Song, Stars

  "Les misérables".

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• Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.

  Cameron Diaz

  Happiness, Smile, Eye

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• Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

  Paul McCartney

  Sadness, Black, Tears

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• Yes. The whole point about laughter is it's like mercury: you can't catch it, you can't catch what motivates it - that's why it's funny.

  Mike Nichols

  Mercury, Whole

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• Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

  William Cobbett

  Happiness, Joy, Mind

  William Cobbett (1829). “Advice to Young Men, and, incidentally, to Young Women, in the middle and higher ranks of life. In a series of letters, etc”, p.364

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• Helen Tse tells a gripping tale of struggle, laughter, love and food that marks Sweet Mandarin as a must read book. It is not only an immigrant account of life but also a universal touching story of survival that will move your soul as well.

  Ken Hom

  Sweet, Struggle, Moving

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• As an example of just how useless these philosophers are for any practice in life there is Socrates himself, the one and only wise man, according to the Delphic Oracle. Whenever he tried to do anything in public he had to break off amid general laughter. While he was philosophizing about clouds and ideas, measuring a flea's foot and marveling at a midge's humming, he learned nothing about the affairs of ordinary life.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Life, Wise, Philosophy

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• The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Love, Life, Happiness

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

  Oswald Chambers

  Happiness, Men, Joy

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• Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Joy, Novelty

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• Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute the word wit for humor. Humor inspires sympathetic good-natured laughter and is favored by the healing-power gang. Wit goes for the jugular, not the jocular, and it's the opposite of football; instead of building character, it tears it down.

  Florence King

  Football, Healing, Character

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.140, Macmillan

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• Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Ukulele

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• Everyone was laughin'. Even that deaf mute boy was breathing heavy and pointing at me. Which is laughter to their kind.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Humor, Boys

  "Skanks for the Memories". Comedy Album, 2003.

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• I opened a book and in I strode.
  Now nobody can find me.
  I've left my chair, my house, my road,
  My town and my world behind me.
  I'm wearing the cloak, I've slipped on the ring,
  I've swallowed the magic potion.
  I've fought with a dragon, dined with a king
  And dived in a bottomless ocean.
  I opened a book and made some friends.
  I shared their tears and laughter
  And followed their road with its bumps and bends
  To the happily ever after.
  I finished my book and out I came.
  The cloak can no longer hide me.
  My chair and my house are just the same,
  But I have a book inside me.

  Julia Donaldson

  Kings, Ocean, Book

  Julia Donaldson (2015). “Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum”, p.45, Pan Macmillan

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• I just love listening to the laughter.

  Simon Pegg

  Happiness, Joy, Heartless

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

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• I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

  Corbin Bleu

  Happiness, Smile, Beautiful

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• Laughter is key. Dancing a must. Because oh, how we do love both things! But most important, possess the ability to be present, be true to your deepest wishes, intentions. Do good unto others, to yourself. Being true to yourself is one of the greatest attributes. Happiness ensues. Be present. Be kind. Be patient. Be honest. Find moments to be silly. The results will always be rewarding.

  Dianna Agron

  Silly, Keys, Dancing

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• I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

  Connie Stevens

  Happiness, Smile, Memories

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• We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter.

  Ringo Starr

  Missing

  "'Devastated' McCartney leads tributes". www.cnn.com. November 30, 2001.

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• Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.

  Louis Orr

  Beauty, Pain, Loneliness

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• Christianity is the worst of the regressions that mankind can ever have undergone, and it's the Jew who, thanks to this diabolic invention, has thrown him back fifteen centuries. The only thing that would be still worse would be victory for the Jew through Bolshevism. If Bolshevism triumphed, mankind would lose the gift of laughter and joy. It would become merely a shapeless mass, doomed to grayness and despair.

  Adolf Hitler

  Joy, Victory, Despair

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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