Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Best Quotes about Laughter

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, Robert

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Holden, Robert

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been.

Hazlitt, William

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

It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Proverb, French

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Eastman, Max

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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

The Talmud

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

Byron, Lord

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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

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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 laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

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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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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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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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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart