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  • That was the most fun I ever had without laughing.

    -Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg Allen
      Of sex.  Annie Hall (with Marshall Brickman).

  • I have the satiric temperament: when I am laughing at anyone I am generally rather amusing, but when I am praising anyone, I am always deadly dull.

    - Sir (Henry) Max(imilian) Beerbohm
      In The Saturday Review, 28 May.

  • Avery merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.

    -John Dryden
      The Secular Masque, l.39^40.

  • But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

    - Samuel Pepys
      Diary entry, 27 Nov.

  • (All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall pass to ashes.) I ask a man in the smoker where he isgoing and he answers: 'Omaha'.

    - Carl Sandburg
      Chicago Poems,'Limited'.

  • There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

    - Edmund Spenser
      Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

  • If I laugh on that particular day I become so filled with Laughing Gas that I simply can't keep on the ground. Even if I smile it happens.The first funny thought, and I'm up like a balloon. And until I can thinkof something serious I can't get down again.

    - P(amela) L(yndon) Travers
      MrWigg, Mary Poppins's uncle.The'particular day' is when his birthday falls on a Friday. Mary Poppins, ch.3.

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