Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
Seán O'Casey
Related Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. the ... SEAN O'CASEY A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything BIBLE A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money
answereth all things. BIBLE The seriousness of a relationship is measured in laughter. SAMUEL H. LOWE Laughter is inner jogging. LAUGHTER A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things. Ecclesiastes 10... BIBLE Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. GORDON B. HINCKLEY Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. LORD CHESTERFIELD It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man. FRANCOIS RABELAIS Laughter is the language of the soul. PABLO NERUDA There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of child... WILLIAM OSLER Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. THOMAS MANN It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a... STEPHEN FRY I am serious, so I laugh a lot. You need to laugh. You don't laugh enough. I don't trust anyone who ... MAYA ANGELOU Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better. BIBLE Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. BIBLE Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you... JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. JOSEPH ADDISON What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul YIDDISH PROVERB Laughter is much better than anger. WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN A long, loud, and canorous peal of laughter. THOMAS DE QUINCEY When people are doing their utmost to upset you, it's probably best to just laugh at them. WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN I wish you well - if you will die. May you rest in peace. FAKEER ISHAVARDAS 'Tickle Monster' is an interactive book and, by the nature of the story, bonds the parent an... JOSIE BISSETT Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with
silly things; for true wit or good... PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Laughter is illusion… But THE BIGGEST ONE, which you can ever encounter in your life. DEYTH BANGER The gods want you to laugh and above all they want you to laugh at them. MARTY RUBIN In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured. GORDON B. HINCKLEY There is a form that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the ex... WILLIAM OSLER Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire. JAROD KINTZ If you did not laugh at least 3 times in a day, then you have missed the best part of your day SOTONYE ANGA Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID She wasn't always the politician. She made everything fun by filling the house with laughter. LEANN ARGANBRIGHT There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. JAMES BOSWELL Please believe me. I've nothing against you personally. It's just that I laugh at all jokes. FAKEER ISHAVARDAS Oh, I laugh hard every day. I mean, my husband is Will Smith! I'm telling you, that's one of... JADA PINKETT SMITH Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good ... LORD CHESTERFIELD There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With te... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's be... LYNSAY SANDS The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. RENEE AHDIEH A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a... HUGH SIDEY Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by... KENNETH L. PIKE Laughter is laughter. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES What is life without laughter? TRENTON LEE STEWART We laughed a lot and I grew warmer still, lovely and warm. I do realize that some of that warmth was... FRANNY BILLINGSLEY There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screa... MERVYN PEAKE Laughter is the key to a successful relationship with everyone in your life! FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Laughter is by definition healthy. DORRIS LESSING Laughter is by definition healthy. DORIS LESSING Laughter is by definition healthy DORIS LESSING There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recogn... MICHAEL HANEKE Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter. JOHN MASEFIELD If love is the treasure, laughter is the key. YAKOV SMIRNOFF There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of child... WILLIAM OSLER The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and... ANNE RICE The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff an... ANNE RICE Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man THOMAS CARLYLE Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after. LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter,
Sermons and soda-water the day after. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after LORD BYRON Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, sermons and soda water the day after. GEORGE GORDON BYRON Life is difficult and those who make us laugh are angels. WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN The “laughter through tears of sorrow” that Pushkin noted elsewhere in his work is precisely lau... NIKOLAI GOGOL Socialism does not mean getting together in a parliament and passing laws, socialism means for us ov... ROSA LUXEMBURG Determine to live life with flair and laughter. MAYA ANGELOU All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one ha... AUGUST WILSON The best blush to use is laughter. It puts roses in your cheeks and in your soul. LINDA KNIGHT Laughter is one of the best medicines that may help us get by in life one day at a time. JEFFREY LEONARD A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign th... HUGH SIDEY Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in l... ERIC HOFFER What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. D.H. LAWRENCE I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif... NIKOLAI GOGOL Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life. WILLIAM OSLER The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter. RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal... WASHINGTON IRVING Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal... WASHINGTON IRVING The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms JAMES THURBER Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. SAMUEL BUTLER That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. JOHN QUINTON That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency. QUINTILIAN That laughter costs too much, which is purchased by the sacrifice of decency QUINTILIAN Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. B... JIM BUTCHER With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No, my young apprentice. You said the exact right thing. Again. I'm just laughing at life." "Wh... P.C. CAST The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. HENRI BERGSON Laughter is God's blessing. JOSEPH PRINCE The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is in love, laughter, and wor... ELBERT HUBBARD Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a fil... DAVID DOBKIN I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter. YAKOV SMIRNOFF A 'naughty pickle' is how I'd best describe myself. I think fun and laughter is the whol... CELIA IMRIE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM Laughter made you live better and longer. GAIL PARENT I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me throug... ANDY DICK Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one. OSCAR WILDE I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke. PETA WILSON Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. EILEEN CADDY In smaller classes, he is the kid who everybody knows for being loud and hilarious. KYLE BARNOFF Laughter is good for you. Nine out of ten stand-up comedians recommend laughter in the face of inten... JIM BUTCHER
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If we're looking for the source o... P.J. O'ROURKE —Help these boys build a nation their own. Ransack the histories for clues to their past. Plunder ... JAMIE O'NEILL They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w... JOSEPH O'CONNOR My arm is weighted by the huge pile of clothing she’s hung over it. A moment of clarity comes over... DAWN O'PORTER