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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
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"Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken." (Russell, Bertrand - Experts)

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Browse Quotations about Laughter

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.
A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.
Every new time will give its law.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.
Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.
I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
If you can laugh at it then you can live with it.
If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.
Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.
Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.
Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.
Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.
Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.
Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.
Laughter is by definition healthy.
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
Laughter is higher than all pain.
Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.
Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.
Laughter is the most healthful exertion.
Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.
Laughter translates into any language.
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.
Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.
Nobody ever died of laughter.
Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.
Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure.
She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.