Definition of Laughter

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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

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

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
Mark Twain

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
Mark Twain

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.
Kahlil Gibran

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Laughter is America's most important export.
Walt Disney

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

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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