Laughter Quotes
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It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
Catullus
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Lincoln called laughter "the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life."
Abraham Lincoln
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Charles Dickens
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Before I came, I went to visit Jane Austen's grave in Winchester Cathedral to pay my respects, you know, and tell her about the grosses. Laughter I don't know how she would react to an evening like this, but I do hope - I do hope she knows how big she is in Uruguay.
Emma Thompson
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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
Publilius Syrus
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One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.
Jean Baudrillard
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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.
Catullus
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If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
Ellen DeGeneres
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Part of positive psychology is about being positive, but sometimes laughter and clowns are not appropriate. Some people don't want to be happy, and that's okay. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.
Eric Weiner