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I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending.

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

It is still not clear from this study how laughter can directly help the heart but other studies have shown that laughter is beneficial for every system in the body.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.