Quotes about laughter
laughter enemy
Laughter is no enemy to learning Walt Disney
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The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance. Vissarion Belinsky
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Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.... William Butler Yeats
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Give me an honest laugher. Walter Scott
laughter eye weapons
Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself. Yevgeny Zamyatin
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Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life. Yogi Berra
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I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy. Woody Allen
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There is a kind of laughter people laugh at public events, as if a joke were a charity auction and they want to be seen to be bidding. William McIlvanney
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From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny Carter redefined American jazz. From the start, his fellow musicians said the way he played the sax was amazing. They say that about me, too. (Laughter.) But I don't think they mean it in quite the same way. William J. Clinton
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Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason. Saint Basil
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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at. Wilson Mizner
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April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears. William Watson
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All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself. Will Rogers
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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it. Will Rogers
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The first thing any comedian does on getting an unscheduled laugh is to verify the state of his . W. C. Fields
laughter hate tears
it seems that tears and laughter, love and hate, make up the sum of life! Zora Neale Hurston
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Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before ithas had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances. William Hazlitt
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. Wendell Berry
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Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful Wendell Berry
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance. W. Somerset Maugham
laughter believe heartless
I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter. Yakov Smirnoff
laughter tragedy representatives
Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. Wyndham Lewis
laughter independent important
Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. Wyndham Lewis
laughter self tragedy
Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. Wyndham Lewis
laughter feelings egotism
Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. William Osler
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Laughter is the music of life. William Osler
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If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter. William P. Young
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank. William Makepeace Thackeray
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me? William Makepeace Thackeray