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“Kid, don't miss an opportunity to laugh, because laughter is what makes the boot heels of life palatable.”
“She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.”
“Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with the vistas, were limitless and unending and powerful.”
“Scully nodded. Of course. It made sense. Complete sense. No question about it. Mulder was perfectly sane in telling her all this. And she was perfectly sane in listening to it and nodding and urgin...”
“If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
“I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.”
“Always laugh when you can, it is cheap medicine.”
“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”
“We watched each other in the candlelight and suave music, and because laughter was the only weapon we had, we laughed until the chill of his story faded, and was gone.”
“Mama, don't take him. We need him,' Jack whispered. 'Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once la...”
“Those are the only to verbalizations usually that we make in movieseither to scream or to laughbecause those two reactions are rather close. Most things we laugh at are things that are really horri...”
“Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution”
“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.”
“Laughter is America's most important export.”
“The Reverend William Trent, whose mind was of a serious order, had several times warned his elder sister that too lively a sense of humour frequently led to laxity of principle. She now perceived h...”
“I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.”
“It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.”
“I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do.”
“The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same-”
“We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.”
