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Laughter
«We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people think we're completely mad!»
«To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.»
«Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.»
Author: William Saroyan
(Writer)
| About:
Anger,
Death and dying,
Laughter,
Living
| Keywords:
alive, alive with, angry, As Good as Dead, as much as possible, dead, good and, hell, like hell, much as, soon, soon enough, wholly
«When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man»
Author: Gustave Flaubert
(Novelist)
| About:
Laughter,
Strength
| Keywords:
dead hand, deride, derided, derides, laughing, The Circle
«What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.»
«Things have different qualities, and the soul different inclinations; for nothing is simple which is presented to the soul, and the soul never presents itself simply to any object. Hence it comes that we weep and laugh at the same thing.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| About:
Laughter,
Soul,
Tears
| Keywords:
inclinations, presented, presents
«When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.»
«When a radio comedian's program is finally finished it slinks down Memory Lane into the limbo of yesteryear's happy hours. All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.»
Author: Fred Allen
(Comedian)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Laughter
| Keywords:
aggravation, aggravations, happy hour, limbo, slink, slinking, slinks, The Comedian, yesteryear