"Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!"
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"A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity."
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"In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss."
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"For a significant man woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron."
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"You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!"
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"Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!"
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"What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last."
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."
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"He who laughs best today, will also laughs last."
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"In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long."
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"But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears."
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"The fool sees naught but folly; and the madman only madness. Yesterday I asked a foolish man to count the fools among us. He laughed and said, "This is too hard a thing to do, and it will take too long. Were it not better to count only the wise?""
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"It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term."
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"We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical."
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"Marriage should be about fun,” she says gently. “It’s about friendship, and laughter, and trust, and fun. If it’s not fun, if you take it all too seriously, what’s the point? You know I’ve been with Andy for fifteen years, and the reason it still works is because he’s my best friend and he still makes me laugh. Admittedly, not all the time, and often we get completely bogged down in work, and the kids, and life, but he’s still the person I most want to phone when anything happens in life, and he’s still the person who makes me laugh the most."
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"The audience bursts into laughter. With the tragic gag I don't expect the audience to laugh (if they do, I have failed) but I expect a black silence from them that is almost as violent: as laughter."
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"Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse."
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"I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling."
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"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."
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"There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter."
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