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 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

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

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Stephen King

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

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

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

Kundera, Milan

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Bill Nye

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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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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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Joseph Addison

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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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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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.

James, William

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

The Talmud

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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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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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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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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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.