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“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter - loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.”

Men Life Heart Children Feelings Form Spirit Social Voice Heard Childhood Expression Spring Laughter Philosopher Uplifting Analysis Significance Egotism Merry

Author:William Osler

“Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.”

Joy Laughing Tears Expression Sorrow Horror Laughter Terror Extremes Anguish Merriment Tears Of Joy Tears Of Sorrow

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man”

Source: Margaret Mead, some personal views

“Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?”

Book Pleasure Expression Laughter Dresses Manners Historian Ridicule Old Time Merriment

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.”

Humans Character Tears Expression Achievement Highest Laughter Inseparable Pathos

Book:Lanterns & Lances

Source: Lanterns & Lances

“There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!”

Men Passion Quality Laughing Expression Laughter Vulgar Unbecoming

Author:William Congreve

“Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.”

World Play Clear Expression Laughter Absence Playfulness God's Presence

Book:Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith

Source: Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith

“With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.”

Looks Certain Expression Majors Laughter Comedian Neighborhood Attributes Bully Comedic Manic

Author:Sylvester Stallone