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

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

Rochlin, Harriet

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

James, William

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

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

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

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

Agnes Repplier

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Byron, Lord

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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If you can laugh at it then you can live with it

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Paul, Jean

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Jay Leno

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.