Laughter
A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. See Laugh, v. i.
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Laughter Quotations
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.
Lucille Ball
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
William Shakespeare
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil Gibran
Laughter is America's most important export.
Walt Disney
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
Wayne Dyer
Laughter Translations
laughter in Danish is latter
laughter in Dutch is gelach, hilariteit, lachbui
laughter in Italian is risata, ridere
laughter in Norwegian is latter
laughter in Portuguese is riso
laughter in Spanish is reir, risa, carcajada
laughter in Swedish is skratt
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