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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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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Virginibus Puerisque, title essay, pt. 1 (1881).)
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We have fallen in the dreams the Ever-living
Breathe on the burnished mirror of the world
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh,
And find their laughter sweeter to the taste
For that brief sighing.
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Shadowy Waters.")
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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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There is spiritual laughter
Too hushed to be gay, too high: the happiness
Of angels.
(Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917), U.S. poet. "Spaulding and Francois.")
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There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
(Marlene Dietrich (1904-1992), German-born U.S. actor. "Laughter," Marlene Dietrich's ABC (1962).)
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Most near, most dear, most loved and most far,
Under the window where I often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter,
(George Barker (b. 1913), British poet, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter. Sonnet to My Mother (l. 1-3). . .
Seven Centuries of Poetry; Chaucer to Dylan Thomas. A. N. Jeffares, ed. (1955) Longmans, Green & Company.)
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The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Sixth Selection, New York (1989).)
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