Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chazal, Malcolm De

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Proverb, French

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Chaplin, Charlie

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.

Sterne, Laurence

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

10.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Paul, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Holden, Robert

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

The Talmud

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

Mizner, Wilson

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

Eastman, Max

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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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If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.

Luther, Martin

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Laughter is by definition healthy.

Doris Lessing

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

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The more laws, the more offenders.

Fuller, Thomas

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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Jimmy Buffett

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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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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It is easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.