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O, I am stabbed with laughter! - William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Boyet at V, ii) They laugh that win! - William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at IV, i) Morally considered, laughter is next to the Ten Commandments. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) Laughter almost ever cometh of things most disproportioned to ourselves and nature: delight hath a joy in it either permanent or present; laughter hath only a scornful tickling. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney), The Defence of Poesy Laughter is the chorus of conversation. - Sir Richard Steele 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 Men are contented to be laughed at for their wit, but not for their folly. - Jonathan Swift One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off. - Thomas De Witt Talmage Laugh and be fat. - John Taylor ("The Water Poet"), Title of a Tract A good laugh is sunshine in a house. - William Makepeace Thackeray Life without laughing is a dreary blank. - William Makepeace Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited. - William Makepeace Thackeray Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian. - William Makepeace Thackeray For still the World prevail'd and its dread laugh, Which scarce the firm Philosopher can scorn. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Autumn (l. 233) Fight Virtue's cause, stand up in Wit's defence, Win us from vice and laugh us into sense. - Thomas Tickell, On the Prospect of Peace (st. 38) Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died. - Peter Ustinov Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart. - Mort Walker The laughter of man is the contentment of God. - John Weiss Laugh and the world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude, claimed by Col. John A. Joyce, who had it engraved on his tombstone Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde) Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And every Grin, so merry, draws one out. - Dr. John Wolcot (Wolcott or Woolcott) (used pseudonym Peter Pindar), Expostulatory Odes (ode 15) The house of laughter makes a house of woe. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 757) Displaying page 5 of 5 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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