1,453 Quotes About Laughter



  • Author Fred Allen
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    All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

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  • Author Hannah Arendt
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    The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

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  • Author Jennifer Aniston
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    People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.

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  • Author John Adams
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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 exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

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  • Author Joseph Addison
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    Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

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  • Author Joseph Addison
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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, and naturally disposed to it.

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