1,453 Quotes About Laughter

  • Author Beth Moore
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    Good humor and laughter are far too wonderful not to come straight from the heart of God.

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  • Author Bob Monkhouse
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    Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.

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  • Author Bryant H. McGill
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    Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

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  • Author Christopher Morley
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    Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

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  • Author Desmond Morris
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    The response of teenagers to their idols is relevant. As an audience, they enjoy themselves, not by screaming with laughter, but screaming with screams.

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  • Author Dylan Moran
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    I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

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  • Author Harpo Marx
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    Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

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