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“Low gurgling laughter, as sweet
As the swallow's song i' the South,
And a ripple of dimples that, dancing, meet
By the curves of a perfect mouth.”
Paul Hamilton Hayne Quotes Source: Ariel
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“Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least:
For wit is news only to ignorance.
Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest
Thy person share, and the conceit advance.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: The Temple--Church Porch (st. 39)
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“And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.”
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios") Quotes Source: The Iliad (bk. I, l. 771), (Pope's translation)
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“For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that
which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
[Lat., Discit enim citius, meminitque libentius ilud
Quod quis deridet, quam quod probat et veneratur.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Epistles (bk. II, 1, 262)
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“Laugh, and be fat, sir, your penance is known.
They that love mirth, let them heartily drink,
'Tis the only receipt to make sorrow sink.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Entertainments--The Penates
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“We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we
laugh at all.”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (ch. IV)
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“The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.”
Alice Meynell Quotes Source: Laughter
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“I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.”
Pierre de Beaumarchais Quotes |
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“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
Groucho Marx Quotes |
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“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
Mark Twain Quotes |
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“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
e e cummings Quotes |
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“Laughter is by definition healthy.”
Doris Lessing Quotes |
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“Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.”
Joseph Addison Quotes |
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“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Quotes |
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“Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.”
Luke Quotes |
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“We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.”
Chazal 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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“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.”
William Hazlitt Quotes |
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“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”
Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes |
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“That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.”
Quintilian Quotes |
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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“A good laugh is sunshine in a house.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.”
Anonymous Quotes |
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“Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, that you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.”
Sydney Smith Quotes |
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“We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”
Rosario Castellanos Quotes |
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