Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Laughter

The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Laughter translates into any language.

Graffiti

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

Cousins, Norman

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e e cummings

Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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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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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The earth laughs in flowers.

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

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

Proverb, French

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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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Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.

Koran, The

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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

Joseph Addison

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They laugh well who laugh last.

Saying

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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

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

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

Twain, Mark

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Barth, Karl

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The Talmud

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

Larry Gelbart

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

Beaumarchais, Pierre De

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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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No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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Laughter is higher than all pain.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Paul, Jean

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

Eastman, Max

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.