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Laughter Quotes


"We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?"


"Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face."


"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."


"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."


"A person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."


"If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward."


"When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on."


"Laughter can bring a new perspective."


"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."


"Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful."


"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 ways."


"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."


"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."


"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed."


"The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed."


"Every blessed one of you feels better for that burst of laughter."


"We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist."


"Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything."


"If the laughter of the audience was malicious we wouldn't show it."


"The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times."


"Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted."


"The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed."


"He who has laughter on his side has no need of proof."


"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."


"If you can laugh at yourself, you have already achieved freedom."


"The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree."


"Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter."


"Don't take life too seriously - learn to laugh at yourself."


"What the real world of 1941 needed most was the release and relief provided by laughter."


"Laughter is ever young, whereas tragedy, except the very highest of all, quickly becomes haggard."
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