Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Seneca

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Balzac, Honore De

Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Mizner, Wilson

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

22.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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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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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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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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A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Boswell, James

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

The Talmud

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.

Hitchcock, Raymond

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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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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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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