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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.

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Bob MonkhouseCrying With Laughter: My Life Story

I think one reason for a successful marriage is laughter. I think laughter gets you through the roug...

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If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages....

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There are a lot of questions I keep asking myself about why I do comedy. I guess I laugh to keep fro...

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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not the tr...

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Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true l...

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I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for...

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I'm an expert on one-armed Herdazian jokes. 'Lopen,' my mother always says, 'you must learn these to...

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Not that we must always partake of [God's feast] solemnly. "God who made good laughter" forbid. It i...

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu...

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Carl SaganBroca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age...

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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with ...

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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and ...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...

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He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thi...

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It was at a conference in Cyprus in 1976, where the theme was the rights of small nations, that I fi...

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to lau...

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Laughter separates us from despair, and gives us a chance at love.

I don’t think being a comedian gives you any fucking insight into what makes people laugh.

I liked making people laugh, and I decided I was an atheist early on. My Dad was all right with that...

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Laughter is an anarchic blasphemy. Tyrants are wise to fear it.

I don’t know why it was, exactly, but nothing irritated my father quite like the sound of his childr...

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David SedarisWhen You Are Engulfed in Flames

Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potat...

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She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, ba...

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The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not...

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God, don't laugh!" Jamie said, alarmed. "I didna mean to make ye laugh! Christ, Jenny will kill me i...

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Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, d...

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And her laugh was enough to make you want to kick over what you were doing and follow her down the s...

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Out on the lawn, Bunny had just knocked Henry's ball about seventy feet outside the court. There was...

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She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra...

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ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd bee...

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Dorothy ParkerThe Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

Laugh and the world laughs with you Weep and you weep alone For the sad old earth must borrow its ...

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We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter.

And what is laughter anyway? Changing the angle of vision.

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Erica JongFear of Fifty: A Midlife Memoir

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

Laugh now, cry later.

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Erma BombeckThe Grass Is Always Greener over the Septic Tank

To us investigators, the concept 'soul' is irrelevant and a matter for laughter.

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Ernst MachHistory and Root of the Principle of the Conservation of Energy

Rex, in his early forties, had grown heavy and ruddy; he had lost his Canadian accent and acquired i...

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Evelyn WaughBrideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter.

To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.

Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter.

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Françoise SaganThat Mad Ache & Translator

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent ...

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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

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Friedrich SchillerDie Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua

It is not time for mirth and laughter, the cold, gray dawn of the morning after.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh.

Laughing at the universe liberated my life. I escape its weight by laughing. I refuse any intellectu...

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Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We...

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Gloria SteinemMy Life on the Road

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has al...

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The only real laughter comes from despair.

Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguis...

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Here I would point out, as a symptom equally worthy of notice, the ABSENCE OF FEELING which usually ...

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Henri BergsonLaughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic

Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...

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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.

To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into noth...

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Immanuel KantCritique of Judgment

And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or s...

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There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories ...

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And though Remi was having worklife problems and bad lovelife with a sharp-tongued woman, he at leas...

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He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.

The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, can...

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I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with ...

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Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of inten...

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I’m not up for laughing, but their laughter makes the room feel safer, so we begin to explore.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing bu...

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Laughter comes later, like wisdom teeth. And laughter at yourself comes last of all in a mad race wi...

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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

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John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry t...

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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, maki...

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It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to the world fr...

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While McMurphy laughs. Rocking farther and farther backward against the cabin top,spreading his laug...

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Ken KeseyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just t...

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In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...

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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...

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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an ho...

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The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hou...

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The coffee was never served. It boiled over, spattered them all, and wet a costly tablecloth and the...

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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should ...

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Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a gr...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing,...

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We're so accustomed to laughing. It's harder for us when the time comes that we can't laugh.

As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you coul...

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