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"laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. laughing at someone else's can shorten it." »Cullen Hightower
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"Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing." »Leonid Sukhorukov
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"If I lived back in the Wild West days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like, 'Hey look. He's carrying a soldering iron' and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, 'That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice.' Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty." »Jane Austen
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"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." »Herbert Gardner
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"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing." »Michael Pritchard
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"The blind man is laughing at the bald head." »Persian Proverb
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"To err is human to refrain from laughing, humane." »Lane Olinghouse
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"Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you." »A. Whitney Brown
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"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing." »Oscar Wilde
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"laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot." »Josh Billings
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"When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off to go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening, when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence." »H.L. Mencken
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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence." »H. L. Mencken
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"Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!" »Edgar Allen Poe
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"A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man." »Gustave Flaubert
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"If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience." »Roderic Owen
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"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but, I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit." »Goldoni
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"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken." »Homer
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"To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body." »Seneca
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"Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me." »Unknown
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"laughing deeply is living deeply." »Milan Kundera
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"One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers." »D. H. Lawrence
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"History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it." »Carl Sandburg
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"It takes a big man to cry. It takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man and an ever bigger man to ask why he is laughing." »Jack Handey
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