Stan Smith (Stanley Roger Smith) Quotes
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Malachy McCourt
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
Wavy Gravy
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
T. C. Boyle
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Yakov Smirnoff
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The highest state is laughter.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
Jack McBrayer
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Laughter drives shouting away.
Indra Devi
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
Yelawolf
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When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.
Zadie Smith
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I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Yakov Smirnoff
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Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know how the rest of the world laughs at you guys? Have you got any idea? They're just rocking with laughter night and day.
Felix Dennis
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A man shall not be full of laughter and mockery, nor sad and mournful, but joyful. ... His desire shall not be so great that he rushes for wealth, nor shall he be lazy and refrain from working. But he shall live in contentment, have a modest occupation, and be occupied mainly with the Torah.
Maimonides
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Life is a jest;Take the delight of it.Laughter is best;Sing through the night of it.Swiftly the tearAnd the hurt and the ache of itFind us down here;Life must be what we make of it.
Edgar Guest
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Over seven thousand US veterans die of suicide every year, which is funny... false laughter... because you'd think they'd die over there, but they come home! Right? I thought that must be funny, because nobody was taking it that seriously.
Maria Bamford
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I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
Albert Brooks
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
John Cleese
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A trembling and some laughter, / a squirt of pee, a spit, / whispers of the heart, / a smell, / the drift to sleep, / pursuit by Gods, / exposure of the bum, / mathematics ...
Peter Greenaway
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Laughter—one of the most precious of God’s gifts; the very salt, the very light, the very fresh air of life; the divine disinfectant, the heavenly purge. Could one ever be real friends with somebody one didn’t laugh with? Of course one couldn’t.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.
Henry Kissinger
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I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.
Zeena Parkins
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Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.
Stan Smith