Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Chesterfield, Lord

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

Chrysosatom, St. John

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

Laughter is the best way to make somebody's heart beat.

Holden, Robert

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.

Rice, Anne

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I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Addison, Joseph

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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People who laugh actually live longer than those who don't laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter.

Walsh, Dr. James A

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Jay Leno

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One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

Mencken, H. L.

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and sets the bells jangling in the next town. Laughter in all its ignorance and cruelty. Laughter with the seed of Satan in it. It tramples upon shrines; the belly-roarer. It roars, it yells, it is delirious: and yet it is as cold as ice. It has no humor. It is naked noise and naked malice.

Peake, Mervyn

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughing is not always the proof of a mind at ease.

Proverb, French

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Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come. Never take yourself too seriously.

Mandino, Og

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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Laughter is a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.

Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

Chaplin, Charlie

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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No one is more profoundly sad as one who laughs too much.