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A laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing. More
A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity. More
All one glow, one mild laugh lasting ages.
Some precision, he fumed into his soup. More
And everybody to the saddest
Laughed the loud laugh the big laugh at the little. More
And I, whose childhood
Is a forgotten boredom,
Feel like a child
Who comes on a... More
And Manuel embraced his mother and they laughed together: Délira’s laugh sounded surprisingly... More
And Peter that had great affairs
And was a pushing man
Shrieks, “I am King of the... More
Anger kills both laughter and joy;
What greater foe is there than anger? More
April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter,
But, the moment after,
Weep thy golden tears! More
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter
and being part of it, until... More
Avoid all kinds of pleasantry and facetiousness in thy discourse with her, and ... suffer her not... More
Bite down
on the bitter stem of your nectared
rose, you know
the dreamy stench of... More
Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five... More
Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly. More
dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at... More
Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief. More
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty... More
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of... More
He is said to have been the last Red Man
In Acton. And the Miller is said to have... More
He took the paper, and I watched,
And saw him peep within;
At the first line he read, his... More
He’s come to die
Or else to laugh, for hay is dried-up grass
When you’re alone.” More
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. More
His hilarity was like a scream from a crevasse. More
How little it takes to make life unbearable.... A pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the... More
I decided that if the shaking of her breasts could be stopped,
some of the fragments of the... More
I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it. More
I laughed him out of patience; and that night
I laughed him into patience. More
If one’s mouth always wears a smile, one will always feel young. More
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of... More
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter. More
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh. More
It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. More
It is indeed very possible, that the Persons we laugh at may in the main of their Characters be... More
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can;
But vindicate the ways of God to Man. More
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone,
For the sad old earth... More
Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted. More
Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous... More
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. More
Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else’s uneasiness, but with a good... More
Laughter not time destroyed my voice
And put that crack in it,
And when the moon’s... More
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy.... In other... More
Laughter shall drown the raucous shout;
And, though these shelt’ring walls are... More
Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh! More
Most near, most dear, most loved and most far,
Under the window where I often found... More
My beards, attend
To the laughter of evil: the fierce ricanery
With the ferocious... More
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. More
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. More
Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity! More
Nothing can confound
A wise man more than laughter from a dunce. More
O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak
ill laid up. More
Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and... More
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. More
Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh. More
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth... More
Present mirth hath present laughter
What’s to come is still unsure. More
Sir, let those laugh that win. More
Smile and feel ten years younger; worry and get grey hair. More
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and... More
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some... More
Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,
I watched that wretched man,
And since, I never... More
The Demon arose from his wallow to laugh,
Brushing the dirt from his eye as he went;
And... More
The fourth; he broke into a roar;
The fifth; his waistband split;
The sixth; he burst... More
The laughing queen that caught the world’s great hands. More
The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms—hollow, heartless,... More
The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. More
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than... More
The more one worries, the older one gets; the more one laughs, the younger one feels. More
The sense of humour has other things to do
than to make itself conspicuous in the act
of... More
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. More
There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you... More
There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and... More
There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it... More
There is spiritual laughter
Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
Of angels. More
These lovers cry, O ho they die!
Yet that which seems the wound to kill
Doth turn O ho!... More
These men are worth
Your tears: You are not worth their merriment. More
This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon... More
Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my... More
Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done. More
We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh,... More
we laughed
the laugh of the well-to-do. More
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed. More
What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!—And he who laughs best... More
What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon... More
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it... More
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a good many friends. They never forgive the loss of... More
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little... More
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they... More
White America, take a laugh out of our black mouths, and win! More
Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? More
Whose laughs are hearty, tho’ his jests are coarse,
And loves you best of all things—but... More
Why do you smile that liverish smile?
Why do you double over in a spaz and a... More
With a laugh,
An oath of towns that set the wild at naught,
They bring the telephone and... More
[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion,... More
[I am] firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles,—but much more so, when he laughs, that it... More

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