1,453 Quotes About Laughter

  • Author William James
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    How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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  • Author Alfred Korzybski
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    One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"

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  • Author Allen Klein
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    It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

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  • Author Allen Klein
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    Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

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  • Author Arthur Koestler
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    Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

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  • Author Barbara Kruger
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    I want to speak, show, see, and hear outrageously astute questions and comments. I want to be on the sides of pleasure and laughter and to disrupt the dour certainties of pictures, property, and power.

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  • Author Bill Kelly
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    After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.

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  • Author Dean Koontz
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    we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

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