1,453 Quotes About Laughter


  • Author Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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    Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own...

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  • Author Jesmyn Ward
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    There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private

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  • Author John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Happy he whose inward ear Angel comfortings can hear, O'er the rabble's laughter; And, while Hatred's fagots burn, Glimpses through the smoke discern Of the good hereafter.

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  • Author Robin Williams
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    I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of "What do we do now?" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on.

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  • Author Scott Westerfeld
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    Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment." Work?" Tally said. They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.

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  • Author Terry Tempest Williams
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    Community is extremely intimate. When we talk about humor, I love that you know when you're home because there is laughter in the room, there is humor, there is shorthand. That is about community.

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