Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Jay Leno

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

There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter -- loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.

Osler, Sir William

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

Bill Nye

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Larry Gelbart

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Byron, Lord

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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 is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Eastman, Max

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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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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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We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Proverb, French

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

37.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Laughter is higher than all pain.