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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. - Joseph Addison To provoke laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect. - Honore de Balzac You grow up the day you have your first real laugh, at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. [Fr., Je me hate de me moquer de tous, de peur d'etre oblige d'en pleurer.] - Pierre Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais, Barbier de Seville (act I, sc. 2) Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh. - Henry Ward Beecher Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter. - Max Beerbohm Nobody ever died of laughter. - Max Beerbohm Laughter is an instant vacation. - Milton Berle For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. - Bible, Ecclesiastes (ch. VII, v. 6) When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it. - William Blake, Laughing Song Truth's sacred fort th' exploded laugh shall win, And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin. - John Brown (1), Essay on Satire (pt. II, V, 224) The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. - Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Don Juan (canto IV, st. 4) A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. - Thomas Carlyle Laughter means sympathy. - Thomas Carlyle No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. - Thomas Carlyle The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, strategems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a strategem. - Thomas Carlyle How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. - Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. IV) Nothing is sillier than a silly laugh. [Lat., Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.] - Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus) Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.] - Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus), Carmina (XXXIX, 16) The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l'on n'a pas rit.] - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort A day without laughter is a day wasted. - Charlie Chaplin I am sure that since I had the use of my reason, no human being has ever heard me laugh. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letter to his Son Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Letters (vol. I, p. 211), (ed. by Mahon) Displaying page 1 of 5 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5
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