"Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh."
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"I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards."
"I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on."
"Only in this world do we laugh: in hell, it won't be possible; and in heaven, it won't be proper."
"You have as much laughter as you have faith."
"His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade"
"Look at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you? You can wear some of the weirdest things and be cool. If you believe in it, that's what makes it cool."
"Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest."
"When you are praising, when you are appreciating, when you are acknowledging value, when you are looking for positive aspects, when you are laughing, when you are applauding, when you are joyous, when you are feeling that feeling of appreciation pulsing through you, in those times, there IS NO RESISTANCE within you. You are, in those moments, vibrationally up to speed with who you really are."
"We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh."
"Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!"
"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."
"The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy."
"A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend."
"We are born with only one face, but laughing or crying, wisely or unwisely, eventually we form our own."
"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."
"We live in a violent world, but since the success of films like Pulp Fiction, it seems every movie has some violence in it, and it's now being used as a form of comedy: audiences are now being encouraged to laugh when people get their heads blown off. I just don't like hearing people laugh at violence."
"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."
"My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone."