LAUGHTER QUOTES

quotations about laughter

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By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

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Laughter is an amazing way to explore your imagination and the minds of others. It's also a great way to think critically and transcend the darker elements of existence.

ANDREW FRANK

"'Make Me Laugh' stand-up comedy contest comes to Norman for semifinals", The Oklahoma Daily, April 5, 2016


If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Sept. 26, 1712

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The only honest art form is laughter.

LENNY BRUCE

The Essential Lenny Bruce

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I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.

AUDREY HEPBURN

How to Be Lovely


My struggle is harsh and I come back
with eyes tired
at times from having seen
the unchanging earth,
but when your laughter enters
it rises to the sky seeking me
and it opens for me all
the doors of life.

PABLO NERUDA

"Your Laughter"

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Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims, Characters, and Reflections

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His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.

CHARLES DICKENS

A Christmas Carol

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He who laughs ... lasts.

ERMA BOMBECK

Forever, Erma

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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

THOMAS SZASZ

The Second Sin

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Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

JENNIFER LEE CARRELL

Interred With Their Bones

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It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

CHARLES DICKENS

A Christmas Carol

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Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

ANONYMOUS


Even in despair, man must laugh.

LIN YUTANG

Between Tears and Laughter

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

JAMES THURBER

New York Times Magazine, Dec. 7, 1958

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But to die of laughter--this, too, seems to me a great euthanasia.

MAX BEERBOHM

"Laughter", And Even Now


However spontaneous it seems, laughter always implies a kind of secret freemasonry, or even complicity, with other laughers, real or imaginary.

HENRI BERGSON

Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic


Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of intense stupidity.

JIM BUTCHER

Proven Guilty


Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man


Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX

Solitude

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