Laughter Quotes - Page 37

• I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.

  Harvey Ball

  Happiness, Smile, Circles

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• The superior student listens to the Way and follows it closely. The average student listens to the Way and follows some and some not. The lesser student listens to the Way and laughs out loud. If there were no laughter it would not be the Way.

  Laozi

  Knowledge, Average, Laughing

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• In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

  Longchenpa

  Facts, Manifest, Perceive

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• Laughter is the evidence that we're still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

  Josh James

  Forever, Tragedy, Survivor

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• We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

  H. Allen Smith

  Believe, Race, Healthy

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• We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.

  Malcolm De Chazal

  Happiness, Smile, Distance

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• If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.

  Johan Huizinga

  Dream, Children, Lying

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• Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

  Keith Donohue

  Mean, Eye, Ice

  Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.58, Random House

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• If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

  Vincent Price

  Art, Tears, Care

  Vincent Price (2016). “I Like What I Know: A Visual Autobiography”, p.270, Open Road Media

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• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Distance

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• Joy, with peace, is the sister of charity. Serve the Lord with laughter.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Joy, Saint, Charity

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• Piping down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb." So I piped with merry cheer; "Piper, pipe that song again." So I piped; he wept to hear.

  William Blake

  Song, Cheer, Children

  'Songs of Innocence' (1789) introduction

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• Without marriage there will be no misery - and no laughter either. There will be so much silence...it will be Nirvana on the earth! Marriage keeps thousands of things going on: the religion, the state, the nations, the wars, the literature, the movies, the science; everything, in fact, depends on the institution of marriage.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, War, Silence

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• As I work among my flowers, I find myself talking to them, reasoning and remonstrating with them, and adoring them as if they were human beings. Much laughter I provoke among my friends by so doing, but that is of no consequence. We are on such good terms, my flowers and I.

  Celia Thaxter

  Friendship, Flower, Talking

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.92, Applewood Books

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• To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

  P. T. Barnum

  Beautiful, Sweet, Children

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Men, Ideas

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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social or political. It is not countries that go to war, but men. It is like salt. Once one has been to war, one has salt for the rest of one's life. Do you understand?

  John Fowles

  Life, Country, War

  "The Magus".

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• Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

  Alexander Pope

  Life, Eye, Men

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 13

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• Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he; Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault; The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Morning, Writing, Laughing

  Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted VILLage”

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• He who knows his soul knows this truth:
  " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a space with Its ever-new joy, has expressed Itself as the vast body of nature.
  I am the stars,
  I am the waves,
  I am the Life of all,
  I am the laughter within all hearts,
  I am the smile on the faces of the flowers and in each soul.
  I am the Wisdom and Power that sustain all creation. "

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Stars, Flower, Heart

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• He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

  William Blake

  Love, Sports, Loss

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.894, Delphi Classics

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• I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Love, Lying, Light

  Georgia Douglas Johnson, “I Want To Die While You Love Me”

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• The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.

  Scott Adams

  Laughing, Energy, Should

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• I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

  Estelle Parsons

  Happiness, Moving, Believe

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