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Laughing Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the…
- The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.
- The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the…
- Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
- One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
- One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
More Laughing Quotes
- When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. — Margaret Atwood
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. — Sri Aurobindo
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
- My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile. — Dan Aykroyd
- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a… — Joseph Barbera
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon
- I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their… — Roseanne Barr
- I want to feel passion, I want to feel pain. I want to weep at the sound of your name. Come make… — Joey Lauren Adams
- You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore