"A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine."
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"Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve."
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"His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it."
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"April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears."
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"What people who don't write don't understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don't. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it's the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don't think of the joke and then say it. I say it and then realize what I've said. And I laugh at it, because I'm hearing it for the first time myself."
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"In every generation there are a few people who are authentically funny. The cosmetics change. You may not be able to articulate it, and you may laugh at them and get a certain amount of enjoyment. But when you're asleep at night, and you wake up at 3 in the morning, and you're alone in your bed, you know who's really funny."
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"Please is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes."
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"Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs."
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"I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself."
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"I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine."
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"True wit never made us laugh."
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"Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in."
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"I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry."
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"As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny."
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"You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?"
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"There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow."
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"Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy."
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"I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor."
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"Judge of a jest when you have done laughing."
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"If people aren't laughing at your dreams, your dreams aren't big enough !"
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