Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Laughter

A hearty laugh gives one a dry cleaning, while a good cry is a wet wash.

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Twain, Mark

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

Boswell, James

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

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

James, William

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old.

Edgar Watson Howe

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

The Talmud

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

18.

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

Jay Leno

19.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

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

Balzac, Honore De

21.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Holden, Robert

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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

28.

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

31.

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

33.

We laugh a lot. That's for sure. Sure beats the alternative, doesn't it?

Betty White

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

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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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

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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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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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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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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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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 closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Kundera, Milan

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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.