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“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“She laughs at my dreams, but I dream about her laughter.”
The Click Five Quotes |
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“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“Laugh often,Dream big,Reach for the stars!”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
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“If every word I said could make you laugh, I'd talk forever...”
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes |
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“I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.”
Cat Stevens Quotes |
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“I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to
weep.
[Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en
pleurer.]”
Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais Quotes Source: Barbier de Seville (act I, sc. 2)
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“For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of
the fool: this also is vanity.”
Bible Quotes Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 6)
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“When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy,
And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;
When the air does laugh with our merry wit,
And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.”
William Blake Quotes Source: Laughing Song
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“Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win,
And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.”
John Brown (1) Quotes Source: Essay on Satire (pt. II, V, 224)
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“The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.”
Robert Burns Quotes Source: Tam o' Shanter
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“And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto IV, st. 4)
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“How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher
the whole man.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. IV)
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“Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.
[Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]”
Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus) Quotes Source: Carmina (XXXIX, 16)
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“The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not
laughed.
[Fr., La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l'on n'a
pas rit.]”
Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus) Quotes Source: Carmina (XXXIX, 16)
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“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus) Quotes Source: Carmina (XXXIX, 16)
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“The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people
often smile, but seldom laugh.”
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield Quotes Source: Letter to his Son
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“Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with
silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh
since the creation of the world.”
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield Quotes Source: Letters (vol. I, p. 211), (ed. by Mahon)
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“A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.”
Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield Quotes Source: Letters (vol. II, pp. 164 & 404), (edited by Mahon)
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“What I saw was equal ecstasy:
One universal smile it seemed of all things.
[It., Cio ch'io vedeva mi sembrava un riso
Dell's universo.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Paradiso (XXVII, 5)
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“He is not always at ease who laughs.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas etre bien aise que de rire.]”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes Source: Paradiso (XXVII, 5)
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“I have known sorrow--therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who never sorrowed upon earth
And know not laughter's worth.
I have known laughter--therefore I
May sorrow with you far more tenderly
Than those who never guess how sad a thing
Seems merriment to one heart's suffering.”
Mrs. Frederic J. Faulks ("Theodosia Pickering Garrison") Quotes Source: Knowledge
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“I am the laughter of the new-born child
On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.”
Richard Watson Gilder Quotes Source: Ode
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“Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.”
Caius Sempronius Gracchus Quotes Source: when his adversaries laughed at his defeat
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