Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Chrysosatom, St. John

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

10.

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

11.

The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

12.

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

Proverb, French

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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 a highly addictive positive contagious: if somebody starts, it's very difficult to stop.

Holden, Robert

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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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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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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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Bill Nye

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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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Laughter is inner jogging.

Norman Cousins

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

Eastman, Max

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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

Cousins, Norman

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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Stephen King

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

33.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Byron, Lord

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Seneca

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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Chazal, Malcolm De

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

Burns, Robert

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

Larry Gelbart

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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

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

Tagore, Rabindranath

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The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -- hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

Thurber, James

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