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On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.
Laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.
You traverse the world in search of happiness which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.
I steeled myself against laughter; I would rather die than laugh. I didn’t laugh, I did not laugh. But I died, I did die.
Love cannot exorcise the gifts of hate. / Hate cannot exorcize what has no weight, / But laughter we can never over-rate.
I want to die while you love me, While yet you hold me fair, While laughter lies upon my lips, And lights are in my hair.
It was always the power of love that pulled us through, and it was the power of laughter that kept us from falling apart.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
We sometimes laugh from ear to ear, but it would be impossible for a smile to be wider than the distance between our eyes.
A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.
Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Some women blush when they are kissed, some call for the police, some swear, some bite. But the worst are those who laugh.
The Stovepipe is a memoir full of laughter and tears and a moving story of sisterly love as well as their will to survive.
Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.
Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
A good fart joke makes me bawl with laughter, so will somebody farting. And the word 'poo.' You can't beat a good poo joke.
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.
What makes people laugh? . . . It's a happy marriage between a person who needs to laugh and someone who's got one to give.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody.
Laughing, if loud, ends with a deep sigh; and all pleasures have a sting in the tail, though they carry beauty in the face.
... laughter is cathartic and cleansing, that it's good for the body and the soul, and when it's real it's better than sex.
Here's hoping that your special day Will be more 'happy ever after' With all the joys of friendship, Love, fun and laughter
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.
I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the rough moments in a marriage.
Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.
There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private
From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations
I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry, and born in bed, in bed we die; the near approach a bed may show of human bliss to human woe.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Laughter's the nearest we ever get, or should get, to sainthood. It's the state of grace that saves most of us from contempt.
Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.
Both Zen and mysticsm have this beautiful quality of happiness and laughter, which I think is so necessary in our modern age.
Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband.
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.