Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has heard me laugh.

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

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

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

Hitchcock, Raymond

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

Seneca

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Twain, Mark

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

Joseph Addison

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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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

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

Jimmy Buffett

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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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Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Holden, Robert

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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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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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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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Jay Leno

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Barrymore, Ethel

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

Byron, Lord

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Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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Chazal, Malcolm De

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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

Mizner, Wilson

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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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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