Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Eastman, Max

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Balzac, Honore De

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.

Connery, Sean

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

Twain, Mark

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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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I can usually judge a fellow by what he laughs at.

Mizner, Wilson

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

The Talmud

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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Baudrillard, Jean

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

Holden, Robert

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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

Jimmy Buffett

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I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Paul, Jean

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

Holden, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Kundera, Milan

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They laugh well who laugh last.

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