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Quotes About Laughter

A laugh burst from Nina's lips. "Not as awkward as it must be for you. Honey, please. If you bent around any harder trying to let me know you fucked Lex to try and make me feel bad, you'd be a pretzel. Although you're about as smart as one.
~ Lauren Dane
I laugh because your pain is amusing.
~ Lauren Dane
In fifty years, we'll be like those old men who spend hours at all-day breakfast diners. We'll have big ears and tufting sprouts of nose hair, and we'll guffaw at everything the other says. Heh-heh-heh, you know it, Roby. Pass the damn ham.
~ Lauren Myracle
Once, in the hospital, a social worker drew her a geneagram, a tree with every family member's name and diagnosis boxed in its branches, and the tree went on and on, out and out in flaring illness, and she laughed and said, "The simplest cure might be to just cut it down.
~ Lauren Slater
Nate tried not to stare at Paul, but he kept thinking of the devilish teenager who'd clowned around on Papa's ships. He'd sneak vinegar into the men's canteens. He'd taught the ship's parrot to cuss in French. Nobody drove Papa and his men crazier — or made them laugh harder.
~ Lauren Tarshis
Mr. Alsworthy!" exclaimed Letty's mother. "How can you laugh at such a matter! Although, I must say, I would have thought if a pirate were to kidnap anyone, he would kidnap Mary. She looks quite as I did in my youth, and I'm sure a pirate would have wanted to kidnap me." "Don't taunt me with lost opportunities, my dear.
~ Lauren Willig
I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life
~ Laurence Sterne
We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
~ Cecilia Dart-Thornton
When she erupted into rippling peals of laughter, he was offended. True, it had not been much of a proposal, but it was the first of his life and meant a great deal to him. Then her infectious laugh grabbed him and pulled him in to laugh along with her.
~ Celeste Bradley
Bird laughs. For the first time in his life, he is unremarkable, and this feels like power.
~ Celeste Ng
chuckle, a loud, insincere whinny that gallops around the room and then vanishes.
~ Celeste Ng
This is the silliest thing I've heard since the cat yoga craze a couple of years ago. I went right out and bought a cat yoga instruction book and tiny terry-cloth headband and renamed my girl cat 'Olive Neutered John,' which she didn't think was funny. Cats have no sense of humor.
~ Celia Rivenbark
Come ha fatto a trovarmi? - gli dissi ridendo. - Non è nulla. Ho aspettato. - Tutta la notte. - Tutto l'inverno.
~ Cesare Pavese
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
~ Chamfort
El día peor empleado es aquél en que no se ha reído
~ Chamfort
Actually, my attention was on a pretty Irish girl sitting in the stands with the sweetest smile on her face. I was trying to show off for her. Her name was Mary Leddy, and I had seen her in the neighborhood, but I had never spoken to her. Pretty soon she was going to change her name to Mrs. Francis J. Sheeran, but she didn't know that then sitting there in the third row, laughing along with the rest of the crowd. Between
~ Charles Brandt
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
~ Charles Bukowski
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
~ Charles Bukowski
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.
~ Charles Chaplin
I believe in the power of laughter and tears as an antidote to hatred and terror
~ Charles Chaplin
All I need is the opportunity,' I said confidently. He smiled. 'Seventeen's very young, and you look even younger.' I shrugged off-handedly. 'That's a question of make-up.' Karno laughed. That shrug, he told Sydney later, got me the job.
~ Charles Chaplin
Le smile of a child expands the universe. (D'un enfant le sourire agrandit l'univers)
~ Charles de Leusse
The cat that laughs is crazy. Man who does not laugh is below. (Le chat qui rit est un fou. - Homme qui ne rit est dessous.)
~ Charles de Leusse