Lewis Carroll Quotes, Respect Quotes, Laughter Quotes

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

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We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

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The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

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Happiness is activity.

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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes, For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies.

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Laughter lifts us over high ridges and lights up dark valleys in a way that makes life so much easier. It is a priceless gem, a gift of release and healing direct from Heaven.

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Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

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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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A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

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And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.

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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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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.

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I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

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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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You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

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

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An atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

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Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.

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There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter. We should see at once that the high ideals for which we are killing and regimenting each other are empty and abstract substiutes for the unheeded miracles that surround us - not only in the obvious wonders of nature but also in the overwhelming uncanny fact of mere existence.

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