Smile Quotes
Shakespeare, Byron, Lord Chesterfield, John Cleese and Milton share the top. Because the topic takes in laughter, the sourced material is dry. Bierce, in 1911, defines laughter as an interior convulsion producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. Mencken, in 1949, defines a creator as a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. Einstein, in 1953, warns that whoever sets himself up as a judge of truth is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Three popular lines are marked misattributed. “A day without laughter is a day wasted” is credited to Charlie Chaplin, and the notes quote an older and longer passage making the same point. “Remember me with smiles and laughter” is credited to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a poem about the thing that goes the farthest toward making life worthwhile, a smile, to Wilbur D. Nesbit.
Songs interwoven of lights and of laughters
Borrowed from bell-birds in far forest rafters.
It is not like there are bursts of laughter from whites, coloureds … everyone laughs together.
This was the happiest laughter that was ever heard on the hill.
His laughter is meant to hide the greed that has begun to glint in his eyes. ("A Fur Salesman")
Oh also I raped someone once, [laughter] I killed her after.
My mother used to say, I learned reverence and silence at the age of fun and laughter.
Faint winds, and far away a fading laughter...
And the rain and over the fields a voice calling...