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

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

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

Holden, Robert

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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

Twain, Mark

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider the frequent relieves we receive from it and how often it breaks the gloom which is apt to depress the mind and damp our spirits, with transient, unexpected gleams of joy, one would take care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life.

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Proverb, French

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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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

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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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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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

Twain, Mark

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Boswell, James

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Eastman, Max

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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Holden, Robert

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

Paul, Jean

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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 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

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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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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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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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Rochlin, Harriet