Motivational Quotes

Laughter

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

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Laughter

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield

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

Cousins, Norman

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

Holden, Robert

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Seneca

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

Thomajan, Puzant Kevork

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

Chrysosatom, St. John

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

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

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

Thurber, James

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

James, William

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The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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He who laughs, lasts!

Mary Pettibone Poole

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

Luther, Martin

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Laughter is the only tranquilizer with no side effects.

Graffiti

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

Eastman, Max

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

Byron, Lord

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

Kundera, Milan

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You grow up on the day you have your first real laugh at, yourself.

Barrymore, Ethel

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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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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

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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Victor Borge

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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'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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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 the most healthful exertion.

Hufeland, Christoph Wilhelm

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

Tagore, Rabindranath

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Holden, Robert

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It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

West, Mae

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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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You can judge a man by what he laughs at.

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He who laughs best today, will also laugh last.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Seneca

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The shortest distance between two people is laughter.

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

The Talmud

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

Joseph Addison

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You enjoy it more if you can laugh at it.

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

Boswell, James

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

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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