Laughter Quotes
2173 quotes by 1379 authors
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
— Isaac Asimov
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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…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
— Marcus Aurelius
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
— Jane Austen
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
— Jane Austen
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We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
— Francis Bacon
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
— Harvey Ball
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I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many…
— Lucille Ball
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Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
— Joey Adams
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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
— Karl Barth
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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now…
— John Adams
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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
— Pierre Beaumarchais
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What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.
— Martha Beck
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of…
— Samuel Beckett
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth,…
— Joseph Addison
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Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.
— George Ade
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It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.
— George Ade
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