LAUGHTER QUOTES VI

quotations about laughter

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The suburbs of folly is vain mirth, and profuseness of laughter is the city of fools.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridion

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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

VACLAV HAVEL

Disturbing the Peace

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You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh.

JAY LENO

The Tonight Show

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Laughter is carbonated holiness.

ANNE LAMOTT

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man


A laughing fool ... seems born for nothing but to show his teeth.

GEORGE POPE MORRIS

The New York Mirror, Mar. 12, 1831


In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

letter to his son, Mar. 9, 1748

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Has the gift of laughter been withdrawn from me? I protest that I do still, at the age of forty-seven, laugh often and loud and long. But not, I believe, so long and loud and often as in my less smiling youth. And I am proud, nowadays, of laughing, and grateful to any one who makes me laugh. That is a bad sign. I no longer take laughter as a matter of course.

MAX BEERBOHM

"Laughter", And Even Now


To laugh is proper to man.

FRANCOIS RABELAIS

Gargantua

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

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


It's no use crying over spilt evils. It's better to mop them up laughing.

ELEANOR FARJEON

Gypsy and Ginger


A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

CHARLES LAMB

Bon-Mots

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He laughs best who laughs last.

JOHN VANBRUGH

The Country House


Laughter would appear to be a physical reflex, although even if it is, this still leaves unanswered the question of why the human response to humor is a convulsive spasm of the respiratory mechanism rather than a crossing of the eyes or a waving of the arms.

STEVE ALLEN

How to Be Funny

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Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY

Anne of Green Gables

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It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

FRED ALLEN

attributed, Dictionary of Quotations in Communications

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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

JIM BUTCHER

Changes


Laughter is America's most important export.

WALT DISNEY

attributed, The Quotable Walt Disney

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A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

SHIRLEY MACLAINE

Family Circle Magazine, Aug. 9, 2005

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Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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