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Source: Billy Sunday speaks

“When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems.”

People Mean Important Problem Hands Games Social Laughing Trouble Serious Jokes Endure Intense Norm Grievance

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.”

Laughing Amount Deny Celebrate Exception Flaws Vacuums

Book:The Works of Walt Whitman

Source: The Works of Walt Whitman

“I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing at systems, at people, at one's self. In laughing even at one's need to laugh all the time. In seeing life as contradictory, many-sided, various, funny, tragic, and with moments of outrageous beauty. In seeing life as a fruitcake, including delicious plums and bad peanuts, but meant to be devoured hungrily all the same because you couldn't feast on the plums without also sometimes being poisoned by the peanuts.”

“The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force and quality the way you do - just as your friends (thank heavens) don't also fall in love with the person you are going on and on about to them.”

Way Writing Persons Seems Might Fall Force Heaven Enjoy Quality Laughing Falling In Love Stranger Hug

Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Laughter is the best medicine for a long and happy life. He who laughs lasts!”

Long Lasts Laughing Laughter Medicine Happy Life Laughter Is The Best Medicine

Author:Wilferd Peterson

“Love loves for ever, And finds a sort of joy in pain, And gives with nought to take again, And loves too well to end in vain: Is the gain small then? Love laughs at "never", Outlives our life, exceeds the span Appointed to mere mortal man: All which love is and does and can Is all in all then.”

Men Giving Wells Doe Ends Pain Joy Love Is Laughing Our Lives Gains And Love Mere Mortals Vain Exceed Mere Mortals

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?”

Thinking Giving Humans Stories Running Pain Turns Laughing Style Population Ass Ems Pushing Funny Travel Twists Airports Parking Parking Lot Human Population Alcatraz Pushing Each Other

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”

“Mirrors can't talk. Luckily for you, they can't laugh either.”

Laughing Mirrors

Author:Jane Wagner

“My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.”

People Way Laughing Like Me My Way Ems

Author:Carrot Top

“I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'”

People Ifs Watches Laughing Crime College Wall Neighborhood Dorms

Author:Carrot Top

“I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.”

Thinking Wells Hard Audience Laughing Plenty

Author:Carrot Top

“In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'”

Knows Done Left Laughing Scene Jokes Asking Reactions

Author:Carrot Top

“My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.”

People World Real Whole Reality Fun Forget Laughing Comedy Laughter Entertainment Comedian Real World Entertainers Making People Laugh

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“It will startle you to see what slaves we are to by-gone times-to Death, if we give the matter the right word! ... We read in Dead Men's books! We laugh at Dead Men's jokes, and cry at Dead Men's pathos! . . . Whatever we seek to do, of our own free motion, a Dead Man's icy hand obstructs us!”

Ifs Men Giving Book Matter Hands Laughing Gone Cry Jokes Slave Dead Man Icy Right Words Pathos Gone Time

Author:Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You wander restlessly from forest to forest while the Reality is within your own dwelling.”

Reality Water Laughing Fishes Forests Wander Dwelling Thirsty

Author:Kabir

“Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.”

Kind Laughing Emotional Chaos Familiar Retrospect

Book:Enjoyment of Laughter

Source: Enjoyment of Laughter

“Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.”

Said Today Lying Speak Language Pleasure Laughing Return Bears Tomorrow Lows Fellows Rounds Ill Treated Ease Unusual Contests Vicious Disagreeable Abusive Cato

Author:Seneca the Younger

“As long as you can laugh at you, it won't bother you when others laugh at you.”

Long Laughing Bother

Author:Zig Ziglar

“And, of course, the funniest food: "kumquats". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste.”

Home Courses Laughing Waste

Author:George Carlin

“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you.”

Heart May Earth Wish Secret Laughing Air Havens Ought Summer Rain Welcome Therapy Unconscious Summer Rain

Book:The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“Comedy is the only profession where love from a stranger is better than love from a family member. You need to perform for strangers to see if you're really funny. If they laugh and cheer, it's the greatest thing in the world.”

Ifs World Needs Laughing Comedy Members Stranger Profession Cheer Family Members

Book:Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your

Source: Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your

“Never perform for your family. They either laugh too hard or not at all.”

Hard Laughing Our Family

Book:Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your

Source: Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your

“I'm an entertainer, not a commentator. If you're a comedian your job is to make people laugh.”

People Ifs Jobs Laughing Comedian Entertainers Making People Laugh Commentators

Author:Johnny Carson

“If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.”

Ifs Life Humor Grows Laughing Trouble Positive Health Laughter Aging

Author:E. W. Howe

“I've been making films with almost no dialogue (laughs), so sound and music become a very powerful character to tell the story. It's almost like with sound and music and images, it's your tool to tell the story, especially when I decide to structure the film in a way that usually goes against the conventions of the three-act structure which most films are made out of.”

Way Made Character Stories Film Three Sound Powerful Laughing Music Is Tools Structure Dialogue Conventions Very Powerful Sound And Music

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“That's when you're laughing the hardest because you're not really in character. You're just trying to learn the moves, but once they call, "Action!", you're in it and it's like you transport yourself to a different place.”

Trying Different Character Action Moving Laughing Like You Hardest Different Place Transport

Author:Malin Akerman

“Everybody needs to laugh and have fun and feel good.”

Needs Feels Fun Laughing Feel Good Having Fun

Author:Andie MacDowell

“I remember being in college and taking a class on classical music and getting a big laugh when I said very sincerely that I was not really into trained voices. Some of the greatest singers can transcend their technical perfection and still sound great.”

Said Stills Bigs Remember Sound Voice Class Laughing College Perfection Singers Sincerely Classical Music

Author:Ira Kaplan

“My favorite moments are when everyone is laughing.”

Moments Laughing My Favorite

Author:Laurie David

“In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that.”

Writing Looks Littles Sometimes Together Bits Laughing Comedy Calling Little Bit Bones Hardest Who We Are Stereotype Offending Laughing Together Funny Bones

Author:Corbin Bernsen

“Men are more visual creatures and rate women based on looks. We like to laugh and be shown a good time. I've never rated anyone on looks.”

Men Looks Laughing Creatures Rate Visuals Good Times

Author:Alice Eve

“I don't want you leaving laughing, I want to leave you shaking. That to me is true horror.”

Want Laughing Horror Leaving Shaking

Author:Tony Todd

“If you're into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video camera. And all computers now come with an easy video editing software program. Just mess around with that for a little bit, try to figure it out, then just put stuff online and have fun. Never give up!”

“I see myself as a huge dork that laughs at my own jokes and forgets to shower sometimes.”

Sometimes My Own Forget Laughing Huge Jokes Showers Dork

Author:Lauren Gardner

“I love comedy. I love to make people laugh. (But) anything that's telling a good story makes me happy. So, I just like to be part of the storytelling process.”

People Stories Process Laughing Comedy Storytelling Good Story Making People Laugh Make Me Happy

Author:Teryl Rothery

“I'd love to do comedy. I'd probably have to get my laughing fits in check, because generally if I've done comedy, I'm usually the straight character that plays against the very obviously funny character, so that's really hard when the person is really hilarious.”

Ifs Persons Hard Done Play Character Laughing Comedy Fit Checks Funny Character

Author:Nathalie Emmanuel

“When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.”

Giving Hard Together Laughing Encouragement Nourishment New Friends

Author:Arca

“Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.”

Important Able Remember Laughing Photography Make Sense Remember Something

Author:Nick Zinner

“Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.”

Way Sometimes Able Love Is Watches Laughing Comedy Player Honor Pops Immigrants Just Being Emphasis Wrong Way Dvds Affinity Wrong Words

Author:John Cho

“Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout.”

Heart Soul Water Laughing Spring Genuine Trout Spring Water

Author:Josh Billings

“It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.”

Men Kind Philosophy Laughing Worst Beats Strain

Author:Josh Billings

“Pyrotechnically considered, [laughing] is the fire-works of the soul.”

Soul Laughing Fire

Author:Josh Billings

“Forget that New Orleans is actually a little like the Combat Zone with French cooking, it still happens to be part of the great state of Louisiana where people play the political game the same way it's played in Lebanon. The place is one layer after another of tribes, factions and at least a million laughs.”

“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humour teaches tolerance, and the humorist, with a smile and perhaps a sigh, is more likely to shrug his shoulders than to condemn.”

People Teach Laughing Humour Angry Tolerance Shoulders Sigh Humorists

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“I am in no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardize of company, yet in one dream I can compose a whole Comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.”

Way I Can Whole Dream Action Company Laughing Comedy Awake Conceit Mirth Facetious

Book:Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]

Source: Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]

“They're a symbol of the whole town, pretending to fight, love, weep and laugh all the time - and they're phonies, all of them. And I head the list...their phony hearts were dripping with the milk of human kindness.”

Humans Heart Whole Fighting Kindness Laughing Towns Lists Symbols Pretending Milk Phony Dripping Human Kindness

Author:Ben Hecht

“Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.”

Laughing Conservative Rebel Academy Fashionable Joining

Author:Jean Cocteau

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