1,859 Quotes About Laughing

  • Author John Buchan
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    If those extra-social brains are so potent, why after all do they effect so little? A dull police-officer, with the machine behind him, can afford to laugh at most experiments in anarchy.

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  • Author Kelly Bishop
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    There is nothing more joyful to me than hearing a live audience laugh. Especially when I planned it that way!

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  • Author Lenny Bruce
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    The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

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  • Author Lenny Bruce
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    What you end up with is outrageousness without the laugh - comedy as electro shock therapy.

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  • Author Lenny Bruce
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    Part of the kick of making people laugh was doing something different. We were a rare breed - spotting one of us was like pinning a space alien, or abdominal snowman. There were maybe a hundred stand-ups in the whole country when I was doing it.

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  • Author Leo Buscaglia
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    To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

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  • Author Libba Bray
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    Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

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