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Puzant Kevork Thomajan
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| "A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market." | |
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Charles Lamb
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| "A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost." | |
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Ferdinand Foch
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| "A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle
comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul,
Overflows, and bubbles all around." | |
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Carolyn Birmingham
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| "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." | |
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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| "An onion can make people cry, but there"s no vegetable that can make
them laugh." | |
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Unknown
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| "At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope
of new possibilities." | |
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Jean Houston
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| "Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child." | |
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
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| "Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall
never cease to be entertained." | |
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John Powell
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| "He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news." | |
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Bertolt Brecht
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| "He who laughs, lasts." | |
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Mary Pettibone Poole
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| "I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at." | |
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Wilson Mizner
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| "I have always felt that laughter in the face of reality is probably
the finest sound there is and will last until the day when the game is
called on account of darkness. In this world, a good time to laugh is any
time you can." | |
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Linda Ellerbee
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| "I laugh because I must not cry." | |
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Abraham Lincoln
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| "If they ever come up with a swashbuckling school, I think one of the
courses should be laughing, then jumping off something." | |
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Jack Handey
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| "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." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think." | |
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Clarence Seward Darrow
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| "If you want a thing well done, do it yourself." | |
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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| "If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most
people laugh at their own jokes." | |
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Bob Edwards
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| "If you?re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about
it, you might as well laugh about it now." | |
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Marie Osmond
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| "Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter." | |
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Sir Max Beerbohm
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| "It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over
it." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep
alone." | |
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Anthony Burgess
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| "Laugh at yourself first, before anybody else can." | |
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Elsa Maxwell
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| "Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects." | |
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Arnold H. Glasow
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| "Laughter is by definition healthy." | |
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Doris Lessing
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| "Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it
principally on one spot." | |
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Josh Billings
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| "Learn to laugh at your troubles and you"ll never run out of things
to laugh at." | |
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Lyn Karol
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| "Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state
legislature." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "Mirth is God"s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care,
moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by
the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself
with it." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much." | |
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Jean Paul Richter
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| "Nothing shows a man"s character more than what he laughs at." | |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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| "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is
laughter." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems,
and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a
stratagem." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not
laughed." | |
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Nicholas Chamfort
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| "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." | |
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e. e. cummings
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| "The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not
laughed." | |
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Sébastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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| "There are some things that are so serious that you have to laugh at
them." | |
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Niels Henrik David Bohr
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| "There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three
which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of
ceremonies and music, finding pleasure in discussing the good points in
the conduct of others, and finding pleasure in having many wise friends,
these are advantageous. But finding pleasure in profligate enjoyments,
finding pleasure in idle gadding about, and finding pleasure in feasting,
these are injurious." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to
laugh at yourself is maturity." | |
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William Arthur Ward
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| "We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can." | |
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Will Rogers
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| "We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." | |
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Agnes Repplier
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| "When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others
to laugh at him." | |
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Thomas Szasz
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| "When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into
a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the
beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh
becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or
girl." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "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." | |
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William Blake
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| "You can"t stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh." | |
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Jay Leno
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| "You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide.
Both are forces of nature." | |
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William Rotsler
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