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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.]
Author: Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais
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.
Author: Bible
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.
Author: William Blake
Source: Laughing Song
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Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win,
And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin.
Author: John Brown (1)
Source: Essay on Satire (pt. II, V, 224)
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The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
Author: Robert Burns
Source: Tam o' Shanter
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And if I laugh at any mortal thing,
'Tis that I may not weep.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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.]
Author: Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
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.]
Author: Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
Source: Carmina (XXXIX, 16)
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Author: Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
Source: Carmina (XXXIX, 16)
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The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people
often smile, but seldom laugh.
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
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.
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Source: Letters (vol. I, p. 211), (ed. by Mahon)
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A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield
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.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
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.]
Author: Dante ("Dante Alighieri")
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.
Author: Mrs. Frederic J. Faulks ("Theodosia Pickering Garrison")
Source: Knowledge
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I am the laughter of the new-born child
On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
Author: Richard Watson Gilder
Source: Ode
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Your laugh is of the sardonic kind.
Author: Caius Sempronius Gracchus
Source: when his adversaries laughed at his defeat
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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.
Author: Paul Hamilton Hayne
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.
Author: George Herbert
Source: The Temple--Church Porch (st. 39)
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And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.
Author: Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
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.]
Author: Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
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.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Entertainments--The Penates
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we
laugh at all.
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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.
Author: Alice Meynell
Source: Laughter
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I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
Author: Pierre de Beaumarchais
Source: None
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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.
Author: Groucho Marx
Source: None
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Author: Mark Twain
Source: None
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Author: e e cummings
Source: None
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
Author: Doris Lessing
Source: None
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: None
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Author: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr
Source: None
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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.
Author: Luke
Source: None
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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.
Author: Chazal
Source: None
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Source: None
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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.
Author: William Hazlitt
Source: None
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
Source: None
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That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
Author: Quintilian
Source: None
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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.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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A good laugh is sunshine in a house.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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When you laugh, be sure to laugh at what people do and not at what people are.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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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.
Author: Sydney Smith
Source: None
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We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.
Author: Rosario Castellanos
Source: None
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Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
Author: Carol Channing
Source: None
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The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
Source: None
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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
Author: Raymond Hitchcock
Source: None
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It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
Author: Carolyn Llewellyn
Source: None
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Laugh at yourself first before anyone else can.
Author: Elsa Maxwell
Source: None
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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
Author: Puzant Kevork Thomajan
Source: None
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Author: Agnes Repplier
Source: None
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