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Laughter |
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Quotations
 | A woman laughing is a woman conquered. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 33 likes |
 | If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 24 likes |
 | If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 16 likes |
 | Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 10 likes |
 | Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 8 likes |
 | If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 7 likes |
 | The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 5 likes |
 | Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
 | Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 5 likes |
 | The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds. — Lenny Bruce, 1925-1966, American comedian 5 likes |
 | That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 5 likes |
 | I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth. — Will Rogers, 1879-1935, American actor 4 likes |
 | The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 4 likes |
 | Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 3 likes |
 | In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
 | Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 3 likes |
 | True life lies in laughter, love and work. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | Laughter is America's most important export. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
 | Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
| There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 3 likes |
 | In comedy there are only two main parts. He who slaps and he who gets slapped. It is never the one who slaps who gets the laughs. — Georges Feydeau, 1862-1921, French playwright 3 likes |
 | Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine. — Lord Byron, 1788-1824, British poet 2 likes |
 | They laughed at Einstein. They laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 2 likes |
 | One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 2 likes |
 | I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 2 likes |
 | Our comedies are not to be laughed at. — Sam Goldwyn, 1879-1974, American film producer 2 likes |
 | Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 2 likes |
 | We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we’re happy because we laugh. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | It would be argument for a week, laughter for a month, and a good jest for ever. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Henry IV 2 likes |
 | It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips. — Fred Allen, 1894-1956, American comedian 2 likes |
| For every laugh, there should be a tear. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
| Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 2 likes |
 | The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 2 likes |
 | Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. — Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist 1 likes |
 | We don’t laugh because we feel good, we feel good because we laugh. |
 | No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. |
 | Television allows thousands of people to laugh at the same joke and still remain alone. |
| The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour, they'll take you away, man. You can't |
 | The man who laughs has simply not yet had the terrible news. |
 | Don’t wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed. |
 | Perhaps his laughter saved them — it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill. |
 | Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. |
 | To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision. |
| Aphrodite’s laughter shakes the sky. |
 | Make a man laugh a good hearty laugh, and you've paved the way for friendship. When a man laughs with you, he, to some extent, likes you. |
 | Seeing how sorrow eats you, defeats you, I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous. |
 | Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. |
 | We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. |
 | To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! |
Personal Stories
| I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 6 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Nothing more silly than a silly laugh. Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est. — Catullus, 84-54 BC, Roman poet 22 likes |
Funny Quotes
 | From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it. — Groucho Marx, 1890-1977, American comedian 4 likes |
 | Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'. |
Ancient Greek
 | A fool laughs even when there is nothing funny. Γελά ο μωρός καν τι μη γελοίον ή. — Pittacus of Mytilene, 650-570 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 11 likes |
 | Don't laugh too much, neither with many things, nor too loud. Γέλως μη πολύς έστω, μηδέ επί πολλοίς, μηδέ ανειμένος. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 4 likes |
 | Untimely laughter creates is bad luck for mortals. Γέλως άκαιρος εν βροτοίς δεινόν κακόν. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | He who laughs last, laughs best. 4 likes |
 | Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. 4 likes |
| He who laughs last, laughs the longest. 2 likes |
