Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

- Bob Newhart

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Jimmy Buffett

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

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

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

They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Byron, Lord

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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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Seneca

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Larry Gelbart

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Twain, Mark

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

Holden, Robert

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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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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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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, 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

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Eastman, Max

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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.