Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Laughter Quotes, Humor Quotes

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

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For a man learns more quickly and remembers more easily that which he laughs at, than that which he approves and reveres.

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Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.

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It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

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Laughter means: taking a mischievous delight in someone else's uneasiness, but with a good conscience.

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Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

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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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Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

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Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

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I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

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Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other.

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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.

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Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

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It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.

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What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

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Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

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