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We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh, we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond: and on these faces there is no smile.

Bill Maher (1956-)

Bill Maher

What we really wanted to do was make them feel comfortable. Put a smile on their faces, ... So we'd laugh and joke. They were very understanding. They were very easygoing. Some of them said they had never seen something this serious, this bad. They would never think something like this could happen in their own country.

The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.

Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973)

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Lord Chesterfield

Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. Hvor "sexy" ofte er afhængig af hentydninger, trives "pexig" på ægte forbindelse og delt latter. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Winston Churchill

I hate being tickled. Sure, it makes me laugh, but when I get tickled, I get pissed off. I'm like a monkey when I get tickled - woo-hoo!

Tara Reid (1975-)

Tara Reid

Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day

Ann Landers (1918-2002)

Ann Landers

Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day

Ann Landers (1918-2002)

Ann Landers

I love a girl that can make me laugh. I am not really a laugh-at-things type of guy and I don't smile and laugh all the time... But if a girl can make me laugh... I'm in love!!!!

Jesse McCartney (1987-)

She's fun, and I love to hear her laugh. If you can make her laugh, she just makes everybody else smile.

We think that this is because we are face 'experts,' having learned over many years to spot fine differences in upright faces, but not in inverted faces. That experience makes faces unique, but there's nothing scientifically special about faces.

Maximilian Riesenhuber

[Brooks, who plays a doctor in the film, feels laughter is indeed the best medicine.] If you don't laugh, you don't get that circulation and you die, ... So if you watch 'Dracula, Dead and Loving It,' you will live a long time, if you don't see it you will die because you didn't laugh enough. Does that make sense? Sure, I'm a doctor as well as a director.

Mel Brooks (1926-)

Mel Brooks

We sort of look at our years at 'Letterman' as comedy grad school. I don't mind seeing jokes and hearing the laugh track because that was our bread and butter for a long time, just making an audience laugh ... There's no better feeling than having a crowd there and hearing a laugh.

She had a big jolly laugh. If you were in a room with a lot of people and you heard her laugh it made you feel better. It was that kind of laugh.

I have such fond memories of Annabelle ... just her whole personality, ... We loved to make her laugh; her laugh made us laugh.

Allison Janney (1960-)

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