Laughter Quotes
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.
Umberto Eco
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Laughter can bring a new perspective.
Christopher Durang
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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Lord Byron
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Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.
Claire Cook
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In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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No sadder sound salutes you than the clear, Wild laughter of the loon.
Celia Thaxter
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Comedy is unique in the sense that laughter is a palpable noise that everyone makes.
Steve Coogan
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Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked.And death was observed with sudden cries,And birth with laughter and pain.And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skiesAnd night came down again.
Conrad Aiken
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Laughter is the music of life.
William Osler
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
Nikolai Gogol
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I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.
Jane Krakowski
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There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.
Francis Chan
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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
Tom Lehrer
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In China I told pastors about how, in the West, we have these church buildings and how we go to services each week that last an hour or so. I told them how if we don't like the music or the message then we can go to different buildings and services... They all broke out into laughter. They thought I was the funniest guy they had ever seen.
Francis Chan
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There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
P. T. Barnum
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Laughter is the fireworks of the soul.
Josh Billings
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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I played in three countries. I played in two World Series. But I never found anything to match the joy and the laughter those years with the Eagles brought me. The city and county loved us.
Monford Merrill "Monte" Irvin
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I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.
Victor Hugo
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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden
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There are so many emotions that are just better when you react to people reacting to it. Like laughter.
Neil Berkeley
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
George Ade
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
Soren Kierkegaard