Laughter Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• 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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• We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

  Alice McDermott

  Silly, Names, Guy

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black

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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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• 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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• Stories? We all spend our lives telling them, about this, about that, about people … But some? Some stories are so good we wish they’d never end. They’re so gripping that we’ll go without sleep just to see a little bit more. Some stories bring us laughter and sometimes they bring us tears … but isn’t that what a great story does? Makes you feel? Stories that are so powerful … they really are with us forever.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Powerful, Sleep, People

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• Laughter brings out the child in all of us.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Ukulele

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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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• 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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• All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Echoes

  Fred Allen (2009). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.240, Wildside Press LLC

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• Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion.

  Dolly Parton

  Tears, Emotion, Cry

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

  Brenda Shaughnessy

  Heartache, Desperate, Muscles

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• Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power, bending the hearts of hardened sinners as the wheat before the wind, breaking up the fountains of the great deep, sweeping the whole range of the emotions, as the master hand moves across the harp strings, from the tears and cries of the penitent to the holy laughter and triumphant joy of the cleansed.

  Norman Grubb

  Moving, Heart, Cutting

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• Let the disappointments pass
  Let the laughter fill your glass
  Let the illusions last until they shatter
  Whatever you might hope to find
  among the thoughts that crowd your mind
  There won't be many that ever really matter.

  Jackson Browne

  Disappointment, Glasses, Mind

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