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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Jay Leno

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

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

Proverb, French

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Byron, Lord

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money; more heart-cleansing than prayer.

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.