Motivational Quotes

Laughter

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

- Colette

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

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

Seneca

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Edgar Watson Howe

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

Paul, Jean

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

James, William

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

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

Bob Newhart

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

Dietrich, Marlene

10.

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

11.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Bodett, Tom

12.

Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

13.

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

Thurber, James

14.

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

15.

You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

16.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Stanhope, Philip Dormer

20.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

21.

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

Holden, Robert

25.

Time spent laughing is time spent with the Gods.

Proverb, Japanese

26.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

27.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

28.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette

29.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 shortest distance between two people is laughter.

32.

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

Rochlin, Harriet

33.

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

34.

Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

35.

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

Boswell, James

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

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

Chaplin, Charlie

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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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

The Talmud