Laughter Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

  Soleil Moon Frye

  Happiness, Thinking, Joy

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

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• What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter.

  Joseph Barbera

  Real, Heartless, World

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

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• It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

  Moliere

  Jobs, Work, People

  'La Critique de l'ècole des femmes' (1663) sc. 6

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• And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

  Julien Benda

  Happiness, Smile, Jesus

  Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.203, Transaction Publishers

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• Arnold Palmer has what I call an 'Eisenhower smile'. Those two men, they'd smile and their whole faces would look so pleasant; it was like they were smiling all over.

  Byron Nelson

  Happiness, Smile, Men

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• I never get tired of smiling. I'm just the kind of guy who likes to smile.

  Jason Ritter

  Happiness, Smile, Tired

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• Joy is the state of the human soul who is not identified with the personality. Happiness is a state of the soul who is identified with the personality and enjoys the life in the personality.

  Torkom Saraydarian

  Happiness, Personality, Joy

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• Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.

  Karl Shapiro

  Happiness, Grief, Eye

  Harriet Monroe, Morton Dauwen Zabel, George Dillon, Karl Jay Shapiro, Henry Rago (1943). “Poetry”

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• Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

  Mary Pickford

  Happiness, Exercise, Emotional

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

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• There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

  Alma Guillermoprieto

  Happiness, Smile, Joy

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• When you see what is not real, this laughter comes

  Mooji

  Real

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• Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.

  Mel Gussow

  Happiness, Joy, Clown

  Mel Gussow (1998). “Theatre on the Edge: New Visions, New Voices”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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  We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Air, Water

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• We're born to be happy, all of us.

  Alfred Sutro

  Happiness, Joy, Born

  Alfred Sutro (1906). “The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts”

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• When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.

  Todd Solondz

  Happiness, People, Laughing

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Eye, Sublime

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2007). “The Brownings' Correspondence: September 1849-January 1851, letters 2813-2900”

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• Laughter means nothing unless there have been tears.

  Jack Hyles

  Mean, Tears, Has Beens

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• Home is heaven and orgies are vile,
  But I like an orgy, once in a while.

  Ogden Nash

  Home, Heaven

  Ogden Nash (1935). “The primrose path”

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• We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start, something put us together to be sisters by heart.

  Meghan Trainor

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it.

  Denis Norden

  Shows, Malicious, Audience

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• If I couldn't laugh, I just would go insane. If we couldn't laugh, we just would go insane. If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Crazy, Laughing, Insane

  Song: Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

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• Anything that gets you to release the stress in your life and really laugh is worthwhile. It can heal the planet. It truly can, and it actually has.

  Lucie Arnaz

  Funny, Stress, Healing

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