1,453 Quotes About Laughter


  • Author Bob Hope
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    A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

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  • Author Bob Hope
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    One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.

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  • Author Edgar Howe
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    If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

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  • Author Eric Hoffer
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    Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.

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  • Author George Herbert
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    Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.

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  • Author Horace
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    For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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