Motivational Quotes

Laughter

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Best Quotes about Laughter

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

The Talmud

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least.

Twain, Mark

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

Boswell, James

Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

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

Jay Leno

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

South, Bishop Robert

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Luther, Martin

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

Paul, Jean

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry.

Prowdzik, Shaun

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bob Newhart

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Byron, Lord

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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Seneca

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Joseph Addison

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She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Cousins, Norman

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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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The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.

Twain, Mark

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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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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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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

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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What provokes your risibility, Sir? Have I said anything that you understand? Then I ask pardon of the rest of the company.