Laughter

(511 votes)   To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Honore De Balzac
1799-1850, French Novelist

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(478 votes)   The more laws, the more offenders.

Thomas Fuller
1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author

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(457 votes)   Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(401 votes)   A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Raymond Hitchcock

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(401 votes)   Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(399 votes)   Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing
1919-, British Novelist

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(382 votes)   There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Marlene Dietrich
1904-1992, German-born American Film Actor

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(371 votes)   Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(363 votes)   Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(351 votes)   Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(340 votes)   The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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(330 votes)   You can always save face with a good hearty laugh.

Greg Evans
American Writer 1978-

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(306 votes)   Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

St. John Chrysosatom
345-407, Patriarch of Constantinople

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(306 votes)   That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency.

John Quinton

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(299 votes)   Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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