Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

Best Quotes about Laughter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Jimmy Buffett

He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Joseph Addison

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

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

10.

The earth laughs in flowers.

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

11.

You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

12.

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

Holden, Robert

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

Byron, Lord

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

18.

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

Seneca

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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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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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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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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

27.

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

James, William

28.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Larry Gelbart

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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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One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Addison, Joseph

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

The Talmud

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

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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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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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

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

Bill Nye

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Thackeray, William M.

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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Laughter is the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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Every new time will give its law.

Gorky, Maxim

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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.