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Quotations by Subject: Laughter (27 quotes)

Results from Classic Quotes:

The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul.: Linda Knight
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act I, sc. 2
Present mirth hath present laughter; what's to come is still unsure.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Twelfth Night, Act II, sc. 3
Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 4
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I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.: Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
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Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one place.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

Results from Poor Man's College:

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 reliefs 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.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)

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