Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

- Barth, Karl

Best Quotes about Laughter

Laughter -- An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

The Talmud

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

Bodett, Tom

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

12.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Cousins, Norman

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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Twain, Mark

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

Thurber, James

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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