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- Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.
- W. Lee Grant
- You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
- Stephen King (1947 - )
- Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- There is no glory in the tepid smiles of the thousands. It is better to have the uproarious laughter of the hundreds.
- Monica Hesse, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
- Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.
- Quintilian
- The essence of all jokes, of all comedy, seems to be an honest or well intended halfness; a non performance of that which is pretended to be performed, at the same time that one is giving loud pledges of performance. The balking of the intellect, is comedy and it announces itself in the pleasant spasms we call laughter.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse V
- Nobody ever died of laughter.
- Max Beerbohm (1872 - 1956)
- And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Prophet
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