Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Cousins, Norman

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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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Boswell, James

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

James, William

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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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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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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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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Proverb, French

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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

The Talmud

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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.