“Anything that can be laughed out of this world ought not to stay in it.”
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
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Union United States Army officer 1833–1899Related quotes
“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
“The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.”
“ Ai Weiwei: Artistic Licence http://www.economist.com/node/21554178.” Economist, May 5, 2012.
2010-, 2012
“I'm for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well.”
Stated on The View, as quoted by Elizabeth Nolan Brown in " Tomi Lahren, Pro-Choice Conservative, Not 'Incoherent' on Abortion https://reason.com/blog/2017/03/20/tomi-lauren-isnt-incoherent-on-abortion," Hit & Run Blog (Reason magazine, 20 March 2017).
“Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.”
Byrne, Robert. The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said, page 372. http://books.google.com/books?id=odz2rZirMAkC&pg=PT372 Simon and Schuster, 2012. ISBN 145164891X
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Katniss Everdeen and Haymitch Abernathy.
The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories (2004)
Source: Stranger than Fiction
“You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh.”
“Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.”
"A Note on Humor", from The Book of Negro Humor https://books.google.com/books?id=60FkAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Humor+is+laughing+at+what+you+haven%27t+got+when+you+ought+to+have+it.%22, p. vii (1966)
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 70 (p. 523)