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• I want my people to understand that because only man is capable to laugh, that means laughter is the highest point of consciousness, the highest point of understanding, the highest point of evolution. That's why I have started calling laughter "the prayer time."

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Mean, Men

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• When you do laugh, open your mouth wide enough for the noise to get out without squealing, throw your head back as though you were going to be shaved, hold on to your false hair with both hands and then laugh till your soul gets thoroughly rested.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Hands, Hair

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• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Humor, People, Laughing

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• Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

  Frida Kahlo

  Light, Laughing, Tragedy

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• With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Happiness, Being Happy

  1596-7 Graziano toAntonio.TheMerchant ofVenice, act1, sc.1, l.79-80.

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• The head thinks, the hands labor, but it's the heart that laughs.

  Liz Curtis Higgs

  Inspirational, Happiness, Heart

  Liz Curtis Higgs (1993). “One Size Fits All and Other Fables”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Happiness, Humor

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• The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

  Publilius Syrus

  Happiness, Joy, Heirs

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• Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter.

  Ivor Novello

  Happiness, Blessed, Feel Better

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• Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.

  Henri Bergson

  Happiness, Joy, Groups

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Comedy: An Essay on Comedy”, p.68, Doubleday

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• The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughing, Mind, Loud

  'The Deserted Village' (1770) l. 121.

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• One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

  Francois Rabelais

  Grief, Men, Laughing

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

  John Quinton

  Sacrifice, Cost, Too Much

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• Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.

  Evan Esar

  Laughing, World, Cry

  Evan Esar (1978). “The Comic Encyclopedia: A Library of the Literature and History of Humor Containing Thousands of Gags, Sayings, and Stories”, Doubleday Books

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• In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

  John Masefield

  Life, Laughing, Lasts

  Widow in Bye Street (1912) ch. 4, p. 66

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• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

  "Man's Search for Meaning". Book by Viktor Frankl, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1946.

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Motivational, Animal

  Lectures on the English Comic Writers "On Wit and Humor" (1818)

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• When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

  Alan Alda

  Happiness, Peace, Humorous

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• For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

  Horace

  Men, Laughing, Remember

  "Epistles" by Horace, Book II. 1. 262,

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• The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Friendship, Good Morning

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

  Francois Rabelais

  Writing, Men, Laughing

  "The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (Introduction)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1532-1564.

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• 'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

  John Dryden

  Funny, Humorous, Men

  John Dryden (1990). “The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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• Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

  William Osler

  Feelings, Egotism

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