LAUGHTER QUOTES III

quotations about laughter

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Laugh now, cry later.

ERMA BOMBECK

The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

MARK TWAIN

The Mysterious Stranger

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Laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

We

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We do not stop laughing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop laughing.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes

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It is a good thing to laugh, at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

JOHN DRYDEN

"A Parallel of Poetry and Painting", Select Essays on the Belles Lettres

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I laugh until I weep
And weep until I smile

RAY BRADBURY

"Christ, Old Student in a New School"

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He who laughs last didn't get the joke at first.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Laughter was absent from her life. Unless strategic or issued in triumph at some further depth she'd managed to go down to.

GLEN DUNCAN

By Blood We Live

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People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

JOSH SUNDQUIST

Just Don't Fall


When you've laughed like that with someone, it connects you at a humanity level.

JOHN CLEESE

interview, A. V. Club, February 5, 2008


You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

STEPHEN KING

Hearts in Atlantis

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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 ought to be.

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Lectures on the English Comic Writers


In regard to health care, we've all heard that laughter is the best medicine. Laughter is also our least costly healthcare option.

DANNY MURPHY

"If elected president, I promise a laugh in every belly!", The Florida Times-Union, April 1, 2016


Casting for a comedy is not that difficult because laughing is an involuntary thing. They make you laugh? That's the person you should cast.

DAVID CASPE

"The Oral History of 'Happy Endings'", Complex, April 5, 2016


A laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick

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O, glorious laughter! thou man-loving spirit, that for a time doth take the burden from the weary back, that doth lay salve to the weary feet, bruised and cut by flints and shards.

DOUGLAS JERROLD

The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold


Laughter is free, free your laughter.

ANONYMOUS


Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

KARL BARTH

attributed, The Harper Book of Quotations


Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

CATULLUS

Carmina


The problem is that we live in an uptight country. Why don't we just laugh at ourselves? We are funny. Gays are funny. Straights are funny. Women are funny. Men are funny. We are all funny, and we all do funny things. Let's laugh about it.

BOB NEWHART

I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This