Laughter Quotes
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The magic is as wide as a smile and as narrow as a wink, loud as laughter and quiet as a tear, tall as a tale and deep as emotion. So strong, it can lift the spirit. So gentle, it can touch the heart. It is the magic that begins the happily ever after.
Walt Disney
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Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.
David Dobkin
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The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Richard Feynman
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There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
James Boswell
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
Madeline Kahn
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There's great value in being able to step back and laugh at yourself, at life and at attitudes. Laughter helps you put everything into perspective.
Jim Henson
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When you're on a movie set and you are hopefully making a comedy, everyone's stifling their laughter. You're looking at the crew guys, hoping someone is making that face like, and not like, this is not working out, man.
Dane Cook
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I recall the sudden arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass - gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.
Ralph Ellison
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I love you, Julie. I loved you that first moment when I looked across the restauraunt and found you. Then you were the loveliest thing I'd ever seen; but now I've discovered how much more you are; loyal and courageous and as true as steel. There's laughter in you and a capacity to love. Julie, Julie, could you learn to love me?
Emilie Loring
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When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
W. H. Auden
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The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same.
Brian Andreas
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One of the things that authoritarians hate is the sound of laughter.
Milo Yiannopoulos
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I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.
Buddy Hackett
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Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face.
Malcolm de Chazal
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Poets have imagined no utterance of fiends or hobgoblins so fearfully appropriate as a laugh. And even the obtuse lime-burner felt his nerves shaken, as this strange man looked inward at his own heart, and burst into laughter that rolled away into the night, and was indistinctly reverberated among the hills.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
Bobby Sands
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
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Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain - they can carry nothing in the grave. You have lungs, let them spill with laughter.
N.D. Wilson
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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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I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.
Cameron Crowe
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
Martha Beck