Laughter Quotes - Page 18

• No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

  Solon

  Happiness, Men, Joy

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• Happiness comes, I know, from some spring within a man — from some curious adjustment to life.

  Hugh Walpole

  Happiness, Joy, Curious

  "Roman Fountain".

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• The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Girl, Believe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.34, RosettaBooks

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• Four be the things I am wiser to know:
  Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
  Four be the things I'd been better without:
  Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
  Three be the things I shall never attain:
  Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
  Three be the things I shall have till I die:
  Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hope, Eye, Envy

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

  John F. Kennedy

  Success, Real, Humor

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• No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Happiness, Men, Joy

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.108

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• Laughter can bring a new perspective.

  Christopher Durang

  Happiness, Perspective, Joy

  "Family Survival". Interview with Arthur Holmberg, americanrepertorytheater.org.

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• Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Headache, Champagne

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• His laughter... sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.

  Joseph Lelyveld

  Son, Water, Sunlight

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• Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to destroy people who resist them. But if you create jokes against them, write funny poems or articles against them, then they feel helpless and desperate. They can't do anything.

  Burhan Sonmez

  Hate, Writing, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

  Rajneesh

  Death, Attitude, Enemy

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• In the darkest of times, laughter helps revolutionize our perspective.

  Phil Callaway

  Perspective, Helping

  Phil Callaway (2009). “Making Life Rich Without Any Money”, p.27, Harvest House Publishers

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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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• 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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• When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!

  Georges Bernanos

  Book, Thinking, Long

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

  Margaret Oliphant

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

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• 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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• What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Happiness, Joy, Compass

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

  Oswald Chambers

  Happiness, Men, Joy

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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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• I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

  Donald O'Connor

  Thinking, People, Sorrow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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