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“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift. He told me that once he forgot himself and opened up like a door with a loose latch and everything fell out and he tried for days to put it all back in the proper order, but he finally gave up and left if there in a pile and loved everything equally. thanks to a subscriber! -William Sloan Coffin.”

“Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.”

Two Book Enough Hate Sleep Laughing Worship Window Grants Peas Cringe Heating Peas In A Pod

Author:Elizabeth Hurley

“So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.”

People Thinking Culture Walks Laughing Pride Miracle Fats Unrelenting Being Fat

Author:Camryn Manheim

“Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.”

Doe Seems Song Common Steps Laughing Sacrifice Spring Sunshine Eggs Cows Boots Commerce Cowboy Veteran Ladders Joyous Ripe Secured Carols Hens

Author:Edgar Wilson Nye

“One aspect of play is the importance of laughter, which has physiological and psychological benefits. Did you know that there are thousands of laughter clubs around the world? People get together and laugh for no reason at all!”

People Knows World Reason Play Together Laughing Benefits Laughter Aspect Importance Clubs Psychological Around The World No Reason Get Together Did You Know Physiological

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“When your children arrive, the best you can hope for is that they break open everything about you. Your mind floods with oxygen. Your heart becomes a room with wide-open windows. You laugh hard every day.”

Mind Heart Children Hard Rooms Break Laughing Window Our Children Wide Your Children Flood Oxygen

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.”

“Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.”

Humor Strong Loses Answers Laughing Weapons Jokes Nothing To Lose

Author:Agnes Varda

“The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour has much to do with pain; it exaggerates the anxieties and absurdities we feel, so that we gain distance and through laughter, relief.”

Needs Feels Pain Life Is Ability Laughing Humour Communication Anxiety Laughter Gains Distance Relief Absurdity Hierarchy Laugh At Life Love And Communication

Author:Sara Davidson

“I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Laughing Track Intervention

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past!”

Years Children Reason Light Age Pain Past Fall Dark Pay Laughing Honor Profound Casts Old Age Fifty Rays Blindness Alas Trembling Flicker Deafness Gout

Author:Pierre-Jean de Beranger

“When you meet someone new who instantly gets you, your sense of humor and your attitudes and your worldview, even if theirs are different - and you get them in return. You both talk and talk and agree and laugh and nod and yes, yes, of course you should get another round of drinks.”

Ifs Should Different Courses Attitude Laughing Return Drink Agree Rounds Sense Of Humor Worldview

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“I love Twitter, you know? I try to read everything I can on Twitter. You get so much nice feedback about stuff, you know you just put out a sentence and everybody laughs or everybody's just sending something back. It's amazing. Same with Facebook, you know? I'm a lot on Facebook and it's just - it's just amazing. And YouTube, of course, as well.”

Knows Trying Wells I Can Courses Stuff Laughing Nice Sentences Feedback Youtube

Author:Tiesto

“I went to the audition for a laugh and got the part for the way I walked down the corridor. There's no justice is there? [on getting a role from an audition”

Way Justice Roles Laughing Auditions Corridors

Author:Ray Winstone

“If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.”

People Ifs Trying May Strong Voice Laughing Failing Failure Dare Loud Unusual Dare To Try

Author:Joline Godfrey

“I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.”

Believe Art Next Laughing Century Movement Students Painting Honestly Abstract Plastic Abstract Art Regression

Author:Richard Schmid

“Once more the liberal year laughs out O'er richer stores than gems or gold: Once more with harvest song and shout Is nature's boldest triumph told.”

Years Song Fall Laughing Gold Stores Triumph Autumn Harvest Gems November Poems Summer To Fall Fall And Winter

Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

“I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.”

Sin Laughing Conscious Mortals Merry Mortal Sin

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“We are here for just a spell, so get a few laughs.”

Laughing Spells Volleyball

Author:Will Rogers

“It is indeed surprising that a man inspite of his belief in the Fire of Jahannum is still able to laugh, and inspite of his belief in Maut he is able to be happy. Inspite of believing in the Reckoning, he commits evil deeds. Inspite of believing in Taqdeer, he grieves. Inspite of observing the world with its changes, he feels contented with it. Inspite of believing in Jannat, he refrains from righteous deeds.”

Men World Feels Believe Stills Wisdom Able Evil Belief Laughing Fire Deeds Commit Grieving Islamic Surprising Righteous Observing Refrain Reckoning Observing The World

Author:Moses

“Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.”

Play School Sleep Laughing Doctors Nostalgia Boyhood Painless

Book:The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier

“Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.”

Helping Fun Laughing Unexpected Sense Of Humor Tolerate Unattractive

Author:Ann Landers

“If I can't find a theme, I can't make a film anyone else will feel. I can't laugh at intellectual humor. I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.”

Ifs Feels Heart I Can Enough Stories Film Fun Laughing Intellectual Theme Corny

Author:Walt Disney

“Childishness? I think it's the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, yes there's a certain something that you retain. It's the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can't laugh at others.”

Thinking Mean Certain Laughing Losing Being Yourself Sense Of Humor Childishness

Author:Walt Disney

“Again the blackbirds sings; the streams Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, And tremble in the April showers The tassels of the maple flowers.”

Dream Laughing Flower Winter Streams Showers April Maple Blackbirds Tassels April Showers

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“I have always noticed that people will never laugh at anything that is not based on truth.”

People Humor Laughing

Book:Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

Source: Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies

“Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.”

Laughing Fire Laughter My Friends Historical Belly Pits Ignite Happiness And Laughter Fire Within

Author:Stella McCartney

“Stand tall, laugh loudly, and be who you truly are”

Laughing Tall

Author:Sark

“Faith slips - and laughs, and rallies”

Laughing Slips

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“At first the cartoon medium was just a novelty, but it never really began to hit until we had more than tricks... until we developed personalities. We had to get beyond getting a laugh. They may roll in the aisles, but that doesn't mean you have a great picture. You have pathos in the thing.”

Firsts May Mean Laughing Personality Tricks Mediums Cartoon Animation Novelty Aisle Pathos

Author:Walt Disney

“I love hearing people laugh.”

People Laughing Hearing

Author:James Gandolfini

“Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.”

Ifs Men Body America Laughing Mad

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“It's no laughing matter being a Republican in these perilous times. Anyone can be a Republican when the stock market is up, but when stocks are selling for no more than they're worth, I tell you, being a Republican - it's a sacrifice.”

Matter Business Laughing Sacrifice Republican Selling Perilous Times

Book:Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

Source: Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)

“'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.”

Ifs Men Humor Funny Laughing Laughter Humorous Instruments Good Things Rate Straws

Book:The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works

Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XX: Prose 1691-1698 De Arte Graphica and Shorter Works

“The hardest thing for me is not to keep laughing. Jennifer particularly is like a clown.”

Laughing Hardest Hardest Thing Clown Jennifer

Author:Victor Garber

“A teacher is there to laugh at you because you have such a high opinion of yourself that you need to be laughed at. You need to sense how small we all are.”

Needs Opinion Laughing Teacher Enlightened Laughed

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You've had to struggle, you've had to fight To keep understanding and compassion in sight You could be laughing at me, you've got the right But you go on smiling so clear and so bright”

Fighting Understanding Compassion Laughing Struggle Clear Goes On Sight Understanding And Compassion

Author:Jackson Browne

“I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive.”

Heart Stills Order Compassion Laughing Alive Cry Birth My Heart Rhythm Birth And Death

Book:Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

Source: Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems

“Have a wonderful sense of humor, particularly about yourself and your own situation. Yet don't simply laugh. Work to change and improve things even though, at times, it seems impossible.”

Seems Situation Laughing Wonderful Impossible Buddhism Sense Of Humor About Yourself Dharma

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Be willing to laugh at your humanness and at your divinity.”

Laughing Willing Buddhism Purity Divinity Humanness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!”

Ifs Want Inspirational Feelings Laughing Rhythm Sections Great Feelings Rhythm Section

Author:Emily Remler

“You start realizing that maybe you're the one night a month that people have out, and they don't need to hear your political views or how dark you can get. They just want to laugh for an hour and go home. Once I wrapped my head around that, my act evolved accordingly.”

People Want Needs Home Political Night Realizing Hours Dark Views Laughing Months One Night Political View

Author:Billy Gardell

“I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.”

Women Laughing Cry Dinner Breakfast

Book:The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling

Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling

“She'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding.”

Evil Laughing Cutting Misogyny Bleeding Evil Women

Author:Billy Joel

“This is getting funny, but there ain't nobody laughing.”

Laughing Expression

Author:Waylon Jennings

“We must be able to deal with ridicule and scorn, which it always seems that Buddhists receive. But we feel that it doesn't matter. God's laughing at us; God's laughing at God. We can take a joke too. We're pretty funny.”

Feels Matter Seems Able Deals Laughing Buddhism Jokes Buddhist Ridicule Scorn

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's quite easy to make a load of people laugh, it's often a reflex action, but I think to make them cry is harder without manipulating them.”

People Thinking Action Easy Laughing Cry Harder Load Reflexes

Author:Ricky Gervais

“I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?”

Way Laughing My Friends Better Ways

Author:Ricky Gervais

“Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.”

Want Laughing Hip Hop Hips Hops Make Me Laugh Obscene

Author:Natalie Portman

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