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Quotations About / On: LAUGHTER
 

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  It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.
 
(Franηois Rabelais (1494-1553), French author, evangelist. Prefatory poem, p. 3, Pleiade edition (1995). Author's apology for book.)
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  Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
 
(Peter Ustinov (b. 1921), British actor, writer, director. Quoted in Observer (London, March 13, 1955).)
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  Laughter scares off lust.
 
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection, New York (1992).)
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  [Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
 
(Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. Satan, in The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10 (1916).)
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  Yet they that know all things but know
That all this life can give us is
A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

 
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "Baile and Aillinn.")
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  The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms—hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
 
(James Thurber (1894-1961), U.S. humorist, illustrator. New York Times Magazine (December 7, 1958).)
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  So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.
 
(Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, playwright and anthropologist. High John de Conquer, American Mercury (1943).)
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  When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

 
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. Epitaph on a Tyrant (l. 5-6). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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